Karen Balcom is an assistant professor of history and women’s studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is an expert on historical aspects of adoption up to the 1960s, including the history of social welfare policy in the U.S. and Canada and women’s reform networks. She wrote “‘Phony Mothers’ and Border-Crossing Adoptions: The Montreal-to-New York Black Market in Babies in the 1950s,” an article in the May 2007 Journal of Women’s History, about a black-market baby ring operating between Canada and the U.S.
| Website | http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~history/faculty/facultyprofiles/balcomprofile.html |
| Email address | balcomk@mcmaster.ca |
| Phone number | 905-525-9140 ext. 24152 |
| Categories | education, Marriage & family, Society & culture |
| Locations | Canada |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Interfaith |
| Languages | English |