Ann Kordas earned a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2001, where she was an editor of Boston University's Law Review, and a Ph.D. in History from Temple University in 2002, where she received the Conwell Fellowship and the Kramer Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies. She is a social and cultural historian who focuses on issues of gender and race. Her special research interests include the history of childhood and adolescence, the history of popular culture, food history, history of occult belief, Cold War history, and gender history. She teaches classes in history, American government and ethics at Johnson & Wales University and ILS classes on Disease and Culture and The Supernatural. She has presented papers at meetings of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, the New England American Studies Association and the Popular Culture Association. She has published on the uses of female gymnasts in Cold War propaganda, gender and the family bomb shelter, Roman Catholicism in 1930s vampire films, and the zombie in American popular culture. Her book, “The Politics of Childhood in Cold War America,” was published in 2011. She is at work on a new book called, “Violent Flirtations and Wedding Cake Dreams: Female Adolescent Sexual and Romantic Culture in the United States, 1850–1960.”Ann Kordas earned a J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2001, where she was an editor of Boston University's Law Review, and a Ph.D. in History from Temple University in 2002, where she received the Conwell Fellowship and the Kramer Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies. She is a social and cultural historian who focuses on issues of gender and race. Her special research interests include the history of childhood and adolescence, the history of popular culture, food history, history of occult belief, Cold War history, and gender history. She teaches classes in history, American government and ethics at Johnson & Wales University and ILS classes on Disease and Culture and The Supernatural. She has presented papers at meetings of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, the New England American Studies Association and the Popular Culture Association. She has published on the uses of female gymnasts in Cold War propaganda, gender and the family bomb shelter, Roman Catholicism in 1930s vampire films, and the zombie in American popular culture. Her book, “The Politics of Childhood in Cold War America,” was published in 2011. She is at work on a new book called, “Violent Flirtations and Wedding Cake Dreams: Female Adolescent Sexual and Romantic Culture in the United States, 1850–1960.”