Allison Miller received her PhD from the Department of History at Rutgers University in 2012.  She is the author of “Am I Normal?: American Vernacular Psychology and the Tomboy Body, 1900-1940” (Representations 122, Spring 2013).  In addition to presenting her work on tomboys at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, she has given invited talks at Oxford University and Brooklyn College.  She is currently revising her book, Boyhood for Girls: American Tomboys and the Transformation of Eroticism, 1900-1940, for publication.