Contributors
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Lieselot De Wilde is a PhD student in the Department of Social Welfare Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Her doctoral thesis focuses on government interventions in the parent-child relation during the 20th century. She earned a master’s degree in educational sciences and her research interests include childhood studies, history of education, and historical sociology of childhood.
Kjersti Ericsson, a psychologist by education, is now Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo. She has published several books and articles on the history of psychiatry, conflict resolution, gender relations, juvenile delinquency, schools, the history of child welfare, Norwegian children of war, and marginalized children. She has also published several volumes of poetry and six novels.
Nell Musgrove is a Senior Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University. Her research as a social and cultural historian explores welfare interventions into the family, most significantly centered on children. Her recent monograph, The Scars Remain: A Long History of Forgotten Australians and Children’s Institutions (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013), explores the history and legacies of institutionalizing children in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. Her current research, as a lead investigator on a nationally funded project, explores the history of foster care in Australia.
Jacob Knage Rasmussen is curator of the Welfare Museum and director of Svendborg town‘s historical archives. He participated in the 2010-2011 Godhavn inquiry, and conducted most of the approximately 100 interviews with care leavers. He was also part of the 2012-2014 social history research project "In care, In history,“ on the history of vulnerable groups during the period 1945-1980.
Maria Rytter is a member of the Danish Writers Association and a self-employed museum consultant who established the Faaborg Prison Museum in Denmark and the Welfare Museum in Svendborg. She was lead investigator the Godhavn Inquiry in Denmark. [End Page 155]
Johanna Sköld is a lecturer in Child Studies at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the international history of orphans and foster children in the 19th and 20th centuries, and on the politics of apologies aimed at victims of abuse in out-of-home care facilities for children. She has published two books on foster care in Sweden, as well as “Historical Abuse – A Contemporary Issue: Compiling Inquiries into Abuse and Neglect of Children in Out-of-Home Care Worldwide” in Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention (spring 2013) and “Conflicting or complementing narratives? Interviewees’ stories compared to their documentary records in the Swedish Inquiry on Child Abuse and Neglect in Institutions and Foster Homes” in Archives and Manuscripts (spring 2012).
Birgitte Søland is Professor of History at The Ohio State University, where she teaches Modern European history, the history of women and gender, and the history of children and childhood. She is the author of Becoming Modern: Young Women and the Reconstruction of Womanhood in the 1920s (Princeton: Princeton, 2000), and she co-edited Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (Routledge, 1996), and Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960 (Indiana University Press, 2005.) She is currently completing her forthcoming book, Other People’s Kids: Orphanages, Foster Care and Child Welfare in 20th Century America.
Shurlee Swain is professor of humanities at Australian Catholic University and the historian chief investigator on Australia’s Find & Connect Web Resource project. Her research, published in both monographs and articles, has informed recent inquiries into Australia's history of forced adoption and abuse of children in care.
Bruno Vanobbergen specializes in the social and cultural history of education. He gained a PhD in Educational Sciences, History and Philosophy of Education in 2003. His publications deal with childhood studies and the philosophy and history of education. Since 2009 he has been the Flemish Children’s Rights Commissioner and a guest professor at Ghent University.
Kathleen Vongsathorn is a Visiting Assistant Professor of African History at Lafayette College, having recently completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She completed a DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford, writing a Wellcome Trust-sponsored thesis on missionaries, government, and...
