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	*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>

	*Nicholas L. ~~Syrett~~ (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/E246DAFCD0BE0D1E495845C92E1EB96C Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/e246dafcd0be0d1e495845c92e1eb96c Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/E246DAFCD0BE0D1E495845C92E1EB96C Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/e246dafcd0be0d1e495845c92e1eb96c Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>

	*Nicholas L. ~~Syrett~~ (2013). "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925. ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2013). [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/509026 "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925.] ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.</ref>		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2013). "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925. ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2013). [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/509026 "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925.] ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	*Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/E246DAFCD0BE0D1E495845C92E1EB96C Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/e246dafcd0be0d1e495845c92e1eb96c Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>		*Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2015). "Statutory Marriage Ages and the Gendered Construction of Adulthood in the Nineteenth Century." In Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett, eds., ''Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present''. New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/E246DAFCD0BE0D1E495845C92E1EB96C Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/e246dafcd0be0d1e495845c92e1eb96c Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>

			*Nicholas L. Syrett (2013). "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925. ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.<ref>Nicholas L. Syrett (2013). [https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/509026 "I Did and I Don’t Regret It": Child Marriage and the Contestation of Childhood in the United States, 1880–1925.] ''The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth'', 6 (2)": 314-331.</ref>

	==References==		==References==

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People: American]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People: American]]

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	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age "''is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging''".<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age "''is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging''".<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

	~~Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we~~ recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averill Earls]], and ~~his~~ chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		We recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averill Earls]], and Syrett's chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>

	==Selected publications==		==Selected publications==

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.		{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.

	Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15). Hyde took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid, even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> While Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage, his work discusses the changing history of "age" as a category itself - how we relate to this category - and gives reasons for how and why it was not as important in the past. His 2016 book argues that "''earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood''" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.		Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15). Hyde took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid, even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref>

			While Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage, his work discusses the changing history of "age" as a category itself - how we relate to this category - and gives reasons for how and why it was not as important in the past. His 2016 book argues that "''earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood''" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.

	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age "''is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging''".<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age "''is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging''".<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.		{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.

	Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15). Hyde took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid, even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> While Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage, his work discusses the changing history of "age" as a category itself - how we relate to this category - and gives reasons for how and why it was not as important in the past. His 2016 book argues that "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.		Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15). Hyde took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid, even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> While Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage, his work discusses the changing history of "age" as a category itself - how we relate to this category - and gives reasons for how and why it was not as important in the past. His 2016 book argues that "''earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood''" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.

	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age ~~“is~~ not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and ~~belonging”~~.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age "''is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging''".<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

	Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averill Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averill Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.		{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.

	Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15)~~, who~~ took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage. His 2016 book ~~points out how~~ "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.		Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15). Hyde took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid, even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> While Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage, his work discusses the changing history of "age" as a category itself - how we relate to this category - and gives reasons for how and why it was not as important in the past. His 2016 book argues that "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.

	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.		{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.

	Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid~~ Captain Thomas Mayne Reid] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15), who took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage. His 2016 book points out how "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.		Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [[Wikipedia:Thomas Mayne Reid\|Captain Thomas Mayne Reid]] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15), who took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage. His 2016 book points out how "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.

	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

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	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

	Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[~~Averil~~ Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averill Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>

	==Selected publications==		==Selected publications==

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	'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.		{{Template:Ac}}'''Nicholas L. Syrett''' is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Kansas, United States. There, he is also a professor, by courtesy, in the History Department, and as of 2023, a coeditor of the ''Journal of the History of Sexuality''.

	Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid Captain Thomas Mayne Reid] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15), who took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage. His 2016 book points out how "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.		Syrett's scholarship of interest to [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, concerns debates over intergenerational / age-gap or [[Youth-Adult Marriage]]. In 2016, his book ''American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States'' was published.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/169ed532ddcb870d9ec3fdde8d2f4482 American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (2016)] PDF from Annas Archive</ref> One of our editorial team reviewed this work for 1st-wave MAP activist [[Thomas_O'Carroll\|Tom O'Carroll]]'s blog heretictoc, focusing on an example of positively experienced age-gap marriage between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid Captain Thomas Mayne Reid] (35) and the aristocrat Elizabeth Hyde (15), who took the name Elizabeth Reid after insisting she marry Reid even if her father refused to consent to their union. The blog discusses her account of their meeting and criticizes Syrett's framing of the account.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ Should a child ever get married?]</ref> Syrett explicitly condemns the practice of unlawful age-gap marriage. His 2016 book points out how "earlier Americans had a functional, rather than chronological, understanding of childhood" (p. 4), and helps to explain why such marriages could be functional and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|experienced positively]] by those involved, as they were not [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|heavily stigmatized]] or assumed / expected to be inherently psychologically harmful.

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	Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>		Syrett's work is particularly notable for historicizing the concept of age, arguing, as historian Alex Lichtenstein summarized, that age “is not a neutral fact, but a vector of power through which officials and ordinary people construct and contest the boundaries of citizenship and belonging”.<ref>[https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/age-as-a-category-of-historical-analysis-in-the-april-issue-of-the-emamerican-historical-review/em Lichtenstein on Syrett]</ref>

	Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averil Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		Some of Syrett's publications are listed with links below, and we recommend the 2020 open-access introduction to the special issue on ''Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History'',<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref> co-authored with [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] and [[Averil Earls]], and his chapter on "Age" in the 2020 ''Routledge History of American Sexuality''.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>

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	*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2021). "Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality." In Rebecca L. Davis & Michele Mitchell, eds., ''Heterosexual Histories'' (96-119). New York: New York University Press.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2021). "Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality." In Rebecca L. Davis & Michele Mitchell, eds., ''Heterosexual Histories'' (96-119). New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/96F09FD48123B0F3CFEC5422C95C2033 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/18d41c806598750de4c311bab48f4cf8 Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2021). "Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality." In Rebecca L. Davis & Michele Mitchell, eds., ''Heterosexual Histories'' (96-119). New York: New York University Press.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2021). "Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality." In Rebecca L. Davis & Michele Mitchell, eds., ''Heterosexual Histories'' (96-119). New York: New York University Press. ([http://library.lol/main/96F09FD48123B0F3CFEC5422C95C2033 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/18d41c806598750de4c311bab48f4cf8 Annas Archive PDF link]).</ref>

	*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Introduction" to "Sex Across the Ages: Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques'' 46 (1): 1-12.		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Introduction" to "Sex Across the Ages: Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques'' 46 (1): 1-12.<ref>[https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/46/1/historical-reflections.46.issue-1.xml Restoring Intergenerational Dynamics to Queer History]</ref>

	*Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett (2020). "Introduction," to "Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." ''American Historical Review'' 125 (2): 370-384.		*Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett (2020). "Introduction," to "Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." ''American Historical Review'' 125 (2): 370-384.<ref>[https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/125/2/371/5817117?redirectedFrom=fulltext American Historical Review discussion].</ref>

	*Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett (2020). "Age and the Construction of Gendered and Raced Citizenship in the United States." ''American Historical Review'', 125 (2): 438-450.		*Field, Corinne T. and Nicholas L. Syrett (2020). "Age and the Construction of Gendered and Raced Citizenship in the United States." ''American Historical Review'', 125 (2): 438-450.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

	*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>		*Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge.<ref>Syrett, Nicholas L. (2020). "Age." In Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, & David Serlin, eds., ''The Routledge History of American Sexuality'' (21-31). New York: Routledge. ([https://library.lol/main/DAF99CBC721CAA20CC826BDF362E80F7 Libgen PDF link]). ([https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/daf99cbc721caa20cc826bdf362e80f7 Anna archive PDF link]).</ref>