Michael Grossberg edited the American Historical Review from 1995 to 2005. He is professor emeritus at Indiana University with a joint appointment in the Department of History and the School of Law. His research focuses on the relationship between law and social change, particularly the intersection of law and the family. He is currently working on a study of child protection in the United States that will assess issues such as child labor, juvenile justice, school reform, disabilities, and child abuse from the 1870s to the present. He co-edited Re-Inventing Childhood in the Post World War II World (2011). Grossberg has also been involved in several family policy research projects such as an initiative to create guidelines for genetic testing in child custody cases and friend of the court briefs in same-sex marriage cases.