Timothy Burke is codirector of the Aydelotte Foundation and a professor of history at Swarthmore College. He is the author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Duke University Press, 1996) and is coauthor with Kevin Burke of Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up with Cartoon Culture (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). He currently maintains the Substack newsletter Eight by Seven.