Historians of Childhood and Youth
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@stephanieolsen.bsky.social
@slowhistorian.bsky.social
Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories. Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London. Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
@vboretti.bsky.social
Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate @ SOAS
@drjonwinder.bsky.social
Historian, geographer, heritage practitioner | currently working on everyday experiences of extreme heat (MeltingMetropolis.com) | research interests include climate, nature, cities, play
@hexhandbook.bsky.social
Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, published under the auspices of the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience, Tampere University. https://sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/
@hadeeljeanne.com
Historian. Researching niche online communities, collective memory, and childhood. Lover of archives, haver of fun.
@orelb.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.
@helwasmuth.bsky.social
Professor of Early Childhood Education @ Mercy University. Co-author of „Finding Froebel“ and other stuff on the history of kindergarten. ECEC theory and policy. Studied in Tübingen and live in NYC. Husband. Dad of a 7th grader. Still playing soccer.
@lenajur.bsky.social
Historian @Philipps-Universität Marburg, researches Adoption, Childhood, and Decolonisation
@juliehardwick.bsky.social
Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). Order here: http://bit.ly/2YYXPTn liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/facult…
@kira-aislinn.bsky.social
AMS Postdoc in the history of medicine, uOttawa. Creative writer & public historian. Interested in Canadian history, childhood, disability, historical fiction, and mad studies.
@wendylrouse.bsky.social
Professor, Historian, Author of Queer History of the Suffrage Movement & Her Own Hero: Origins of Women's Self-Defense, History Teacher Prep, #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈🗃️ WendyLRouse.com
@mortabasi.bsky.social
Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social
@kghist.bsky.social
Feminism. Equality. British histories, espy music, gender, women, childhood, politics. Researching British women composers, v. long C19. Disabilities
@ostrovdoktora.bsky.social
Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
@cjdenial.bsky.social
Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, gender, the family, welfare.
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths. British, American, comparative and global politics and culture. Dad; Londoner; Cypriot. Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@catgqf.bsky.social
Sometimes a girls' education historian, other times a library assistant. IHR Life Cycles seminar administrator. Allotment keeper and one of those annoying cyclists who uses cycle lanes and obeys traffic lights.
@olwenpurdue.bsky.social
Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
@anisapuri.bsky.social
Historian, Author, Research Project Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history. 📖 Australian Lives: An Intimate History she/her anisapuri.com
@cclements29.bsky.social
@samanthamcc.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Magdalen, Oxford. Researching childhood experiences of physical disability in England, 1930-70. Cat owner 🐱 * Dyspraxic * actually autistic * first gen scholar * https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/samantha-mccormack
@emyang.bsky.social
Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
@laurakola.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Tampere university, history of education, international politics, EU, UK
@jtschurenev.bsky.social
Historian of education, gender and the family. ERC Project "Democratising the family? Gender Equality, Parental Rights, and Child Welfare in Contemporary Global History", FU Berlin
@yinkaolusoga.bsky.social
Lecturer in Education | Researching histories/practices of childhood, play & education | Views my own | Foucault would dispute this
@fannyisensee.bsky.social
historian of education | working on age-grading in (US) public education | interested in the history of motorization and schools
@hannhkarina.bsky.social
Academy of Finland postdoc & Aaltonen Foundation PI at University of Jyväskylä | PhD from University of Glasgow | Chair of Finnish Oral History Network | Young Academy Finland member | Trade union activist | Historian of gender, media, emotions & protest
@historicalbeans.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain. Focus on childhood, welfare, social mobility and poverty. Into public history. Always wishing I could do more and reach more. Keen but not very good hockey player, neglectful wife. Love cats
@edillenburg.bsky.social
Historian studying girls’ migration, labor, and culture in the British Empire
@histosaurusbex.bsky.social
Historian of Empire, South Africa, education, childhood. Working on emancipation and childhood in the Cape colony. Based at Uni of the Free State
@samirasaramo.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary historian mapping place, feelings, life stories, the everyday & Finnish migrants. www.samirasaramo.com Migration Institute of Finland Senior Research Fellow, Kone Foundation grantee, Docent of Cultural History
@csloan.bsky.social
History, childhood, girlhood, periodicals; Oxford CDF; this site is my nonsense not employer’s.
@cbjerre.bsky.social
Historian | Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. PI: Paternity in Denmark, c. 1900–2000 (PAID) Co-PI: The Danish Family Revolution: Experiences & Institutions (FREI). https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/cbjerre
@fjensz.bsky.social
Australian Historian based in Germany - currently Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professsor | history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.
@dr-jwestberg.bsky.social
Professor in Theory and History of Education, Groningen, NL. Historian of education, Groningen/Örebro/Uppsala. Father of two.
@mariacannon.bsky.social
Historian of the family, life cycle, and emotions in early modern England currently working on life in blended families. Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth
@valeriedeacon.bsky.social
Historian of Modern France, the extreme-right, and the French Resistance. Working in curriculum development (teaching and learning spaces) and student success at TMU. Parent of a very sassy young child.
@heatherlwellis.bsky.social
SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk | Co-Editor History of Education
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@mirandasachs.bsky.social
Historian at TXST. Studying Modern Europe, youth culture. Author of An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@carorusterholz.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva Prof Social History, Fribourg University History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics She/her. Breast cancer survivor
@meznaqato.bsky.social
@jburkett.bsky.social
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
@piakoivunen.bsky.social
PhD, Senior lecturer in European and World history @UniTurku, Finland. Chair of Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies @FAREES Russia, Cold War, mega-events, youth & student organisations, oral history, memory politics & museums.
@drsarahlkenny.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of MBS Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
@leticiafontecha.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, childhood, pain. Writer. Poet. Book: Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History (CUP soon!). Current project: Infants: A Medical History of Early Life
@sesamescholar.bsky.social
Historian, mom, wife, feminist, rower. PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark. Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).
@mariaframke.bsky.social
Historian of modern South Asia, interested in humanitarianism and rural development & women, Berlin and Oderbruch fan
@cadebellaigue.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@bookscribbler.bsky.social
History Prof @ Durham University | STS | HPS | Book: Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines (Chicago: 2023) | Current Projects: Science, Race and Statistics in the British Empire; The Enlightenment and Its Informatic Afterlives
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction at Colby College, my views etc.) https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
@kalexand.bsky.social
@stephanieolsen.bsky.social
Historian of childhood, experience, emotions and education of Britain, Empire, Global. Editor of History of Education. Senior Researcher, Centre for the History of Experiences (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦