Contributors
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Cecilie Bjerre, MA, is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History at the University of Southern Denmark. Her dissertation is a study of foster care and out-of-home placements in Denmark from c. 1905–1975, employing an emotions history perspective.
Tarah Brookfield is an associate professor in History and Youth and Children’s Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her past and current research focuses on Canadian women’s political activism, peace work, and child welfare efforts during wartime. She is also interested in children’s experiences with institutional care, domestic adoption, and international adoption. She is the author of Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity (2012) and has had articles published in the Canadian Historical Review, Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
Andy Byford is Senior Lecturer in Russian at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He is currently completing a book on the history of child science in Russia across the late-tsarist and early-Soviet periods. He has published on this topic in journals such as The Russian Review, Osiris, History of the Human Sciences, Voprosy psikhologii, History of Education Quarterly, History of Education, and others.
Olga Dror is associate professor at Texas A&M University. While her earlier works focused on Vietnamese and Chinese religions in early modern history, she has switched to studying the war in Vietnam between 1965 and 1975 from a non-combatants’ point of view. Her first contribution in this field was a translation and a study of a civilian account of the Tet Offensive in 1968 in the city of Huế, titled Mourning Head Band for Hue. This article is a part of her future monograph comparing how children were raised on the opposing sides of the war, in North and South Vietnam.
Mikko Myllykangas is a postdoctoral researcher in History of Science and Ideas at University of Oulu. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the history of suicide research in Finland in the 19th and the 20th century, and his research interests include history of psychiatry and history of medicalization. [End Page 527]
Katariina Parhi is a doctoral student of history of science and ideas at University of Oulu, Finland. Her thesis deals with the history of psychopathy in Finland.
Brian Rouleau is assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University. He would like to thank Katherine Unterman, two anonymous reviewers at the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and staff at the New York Public Library and University of Oregon Library. The Texas A&M PESCA program provided generous financial aid that made this research possible.
Karen Vallgårda, MA, PhD, is assistant professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. She has published articles on the history of emotions, childhood, gender, Christian missions, and colonialism. Her book, Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Her current project examines the emotional history of divorce in Denmark, 1885–2015. [End Page 528]
