Contributors

Ulla Aatsinki is a researcher at the University of Tampere. She specialises in social and political history, more closely power relationships from the perspectives of grassroots political activity and informal education.

Astri Andresen is professor in History at the Dep. of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen. Research interests include the history of child welfare, minorities in the Nordic countries, and medicine and science. Her most recent publications concern Sami politics and science as well as birth control in twentieth-century Norway.

Johanna Annola is a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in History of Experiences, University of Tampere. She has published on early social care work in Northern Europe with a particular focus on Finland.

Vibeke Kieding Banik is an associate professor at the University of Southeast Norway. She has researched and published extensively on Jewish history in Norway.

Mette Buchardt is associate professor, Centre for Education Policy Research, Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark. Research areas are the history of education; comparative welfare state history; church history; and historical research on religion, school, and society.

Laura Ekholm is a postdoctoral researcher in economic and social history at the University of Helsinki, where she also received her PhD (2013) titled Boundaries of an Urban Minority: The Helsinki Jewish Community from the End of Imperial Russia until the 1970s.

Antti Häkkinen is a professor who has worked at the University of Helsinki since the 1980s. His research fields cover health; ethnic relations; social problems; hunger crisis; and the inter-generational transmission of economic, social, and human capital.

Ulla Ijäs is the acting university teacher in Finnish history in the School of History, Culture, and Arts Studies, University of Turku (Finland). Her research interests are merchant houses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, merchant networks, migration, towns, gender, and consumption.

Mervi Kaarninen is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her current research fields are the history of education, gender history, the history of childhood and youth, and youth culture. She has published several books and articles on the history of education and Finnish childhood and youth.

Satu Lidman, PhD, is an adjunct professor of History of Criminal Law at the University of Turku Faculty of Law. Her research interests include early modern and modernising criminal law, history of gender, and violent crime as well as domestic and sexual violence.

Olli Matikainen, PhD, University of Jyväskylä, is a Finnish historian. He has published on various topics in Finnish history, including crime and justice in Early Modern Finland, post-war university students, and modern media history.

Sinikka Selin, PhD, defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki in 2017. The dissertation deals with young people’s educational and occupational aspirations in the 1950s and 1960s. At the moment, she is an independent researcher.

Raisa Maria Toivo is an academy research fellow and leads the Lived Religion team at the Center of Excellence in the History of Experiences at the University of Tampere, Finland. She has published on early modern religion, gender, and family, including Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland (2016).

Merja Uotila, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She currently works at the project “Contextualizing Finnish Early Modern Economy”. In her doctoral dissertation (2014), she examined rural artisans’ living and has written about artisans’ godparent relationships and apprenticeship practices.