Contributors
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Katherine Reed University of Manchester
Katherine Reed is a history PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. Her research on historic graffiti has been published in American Nineteenth Century History and the Journal of American Ethnic History. The object lesson on Cesare Colosimo's graffiti won the Postgraduate Essay Prize from the British Association for American Studies in 2020.
Clarissa Carden Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Clarissa Carden is a historical sociologist and postdoctoral research fellow based at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Clarissa's research engages broadly with the intersection of morality and social change, focusing on the lives of young people. Her current project, A Century of Youth Justice, examines the historical emergence of contemporary youth justice for boys in Australia through the history of two long-lived institutions.
Talia Diskin Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a post-doc fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Talia Diskin, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a post-doc fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Zionist Ethoses in Education Research Hub, Ben-Gurion Institute). Her fields of interest include children and youth culture and education, as well as the history, philosophy, and sociology of law. She received the Ben Halpern award from the AIS (Association for Israel Studies) for best PhD dissertation in Israel studies (2017) for her study "A law of Our Own: Legal and Moral Values in Children and Youth Periodicals in the State of Israel, 1948–1958," supervised by Prof. Assaf Likhovski, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Tatsuya Mitsuda Keio University, Japan
Tatsuya Mitsuda is associate professor at Keio University, Japan. He was educated at Keio, Bonn, and Cambridge, where he received his PhD in history. His research interests span the intertwined social and cultural histories of food, animals, and children, with reference to German and Japanese experiences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent publications include "'Vegetarian' Nationalism: Critiques of Meat Eating for Japanese Bodies, 1880–1938," in Culinary Nationalism in Asia, edited by Michelle T. King (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), and "Trichinosis Revisited: Scientific Interventions in the Assessment of Meat and Animals in Imperial Germany," Food and Foodways 27, nos. 1–2 (2019), 49–73. He is currently writing a book on the history of sweets and snacking in Japan and a monograph on the history of animal health in nineteenth-century Germany.
Mathilda Hallberg Linköping University, Sweden
Mathilda Hallberg earned her PhD in child studies from Linköping University, Sweden. She is a lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning at Linköping University. Her research focuses on family and welfare politics, history, and visual culture. She is currently working on research involving children´s rights and public campaigns against child abuse during the 1970s.
Bengt Sandin Swedish welfare state
Bengt Sandin is a professor emeritus. His research spans the period from the early modern to the late Swedish welfare state, including studies on early modern education and state building, child labour, street children, educational media politics, and welfare politics, and involves an engagement with the social and cultural history of children and the construction of childhood. Sandin has been the scientific leader of a number of large research programs. He is currently researching the understanding and development of children's social and participatory rights. Recent publications include articles on parenting and the welfare state as well as on corporal punishment in families and institutions.
Johanna Sjöberg Linköping University, Sweden
Johanna Sjöberg is a senior lecturer at the Department of Thematic Studies—Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on children, consumption, and visual media. Her publications include "Sustaining and Transgressing Borders: The Relationship between Children and the Elderly in Mad Men" with Cecilia Lindgren in Vanessa Joosen (ed.), Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018) and Situating Child Consumption: Rethinking values and notions of children, childhood and consumption (Anna Sparrman, Bengt Sandin, and Johanna Sjöberg (eds.), Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2012). She is now working on the project "Escaping shame or taking a vacation from the family? The market...
