Rimliya Tariq Telkenaroglu is a PhD candidate in History at McGill University, Québec, Canada. Her research explores the contemporary theological and religious debates surrounding Quaker views and attitudes, illuminating the intersections among gender, religious identity, and spiritual possession in Early Quakerism. She can be contacted via email at rimliya.telkenaroglu@mail.mcgill.ca.

Priyanka Zylstra is a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research examines the history of South Asian women’s activism in 1970s-1990s Britain and the various collaborations between South Asian women and Black women in activist communities. She is currently conducting archival research in community archives in the United Kingdom.

Julia is a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University, writing a dissertation on abortion in nineteenth-century Britain with two goals. The first is to explore the effects of industrial capitalism on abortion’s availability, methods, and criminality through a comprehensive review of nineteenth-century abortion trials, whose evolution speaks to the commodification of the practice, the motives behind its criminalization, and the profits made – then and today – in offering women “choice” as consumers, but not as citizens. The second goal is to remedy the omission of individual women from existing historiography: the unsuccessful, and therefore visible, abortion that wound up in the courtroom or hospital is too often conflated with the successful, routine contraceptive practice, undetectable by contemporaries and historians, alike. By contextualizing abortions in the lives in which they occurred, the dissertation attempts a history of abortion as it might be told by the people who actually had them.

Nell Klinger is a PhD student in history at the University of Chicago. Her work investigates petitioning in the British Atlantic during the early modern period. Her research has been supported by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Brenda and Earl Shapiro Scholarship, and the North American Conference on British Studies.

Zoe Neubauer is a third-year PhD student at McGill University, working with Professor Brian Lewis. They received their BA from Boston University, where they wrote an honors thesis under the supervision of Professor Arianne Chernock, and their MA from York University, where they wrote an MRP examining the role of gender nonconformity in the Gay Liberation Front under the supervision of Professor Stephen Brooke. Zoe's research (tentatively) focuses on the development of trans identities and communities across the UK from 1970 to 2004, with a particular focus on the language members used to construct these identities and communities. In their spare time, they enjoy reading, baking, and a variety of fiber arts.