Lee S. Polansky received her Ph.D. in American History from Emory University. A graduate of Brandeis University (B.A.) and the University of Pittsburgh (M.P.I.A.), she is currently preparing her dissertation, “For It Made Me a Lady: The Delinquent Girl and the Georgia Training School for Girls, 1914–1930,” for publication as a book. She is the Director of Planning and Foundation Relations for a Washington, D.C. nonprofit organization.