Notes on Contributors
Knud Andresen
is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary History (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte) and Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on social and cultural history in the 20th century, mainly the history of work and labour movements, new social movements, oral history and the history of the New Left.
Pepijn Brandon
is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of capitalism, war, and slavery. He is a member of the editorial committee of the International Review of Social History. He is an affiliate of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, where he held the Erasmus Lectureship of the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders in the spring of 2020.
Zsombor Bódy
is Associate Professor at the Institute for Sociology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. He is co-editor of Korall – Journal for Social History, and member of the executive board of the Hungarian Social History Association.
Dimitrii Churakov
is Professor of History at the Moscow Pedagogical State University. His research areas are matriarchy in Russian history, numismatics, labour history, Soviet political history, and “memory wars” in the post-Soviet space. His latest books were on workers’ protest in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1930 and on Soviet society in the 1970s.
Gabriel Di Meglio
gained his doctorate from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he also gained his undergraduate degree. He is a researcher for conicet and a lecturer on Argentine History (1776–1862) for the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on participation in politics in the Río de la Plata region during the first half of the 19th Century. His published work includes the books Historia de las clases populares en la Argentina desde 1516 hasta 1880 (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2012), and Manuel Dorrego. Vida y muerte de un líder popular (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2014).
Kimmo Elo
is Adjunct Professor and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at the University of Turku. His current research interests include text/data mining, network analysis, knowledge visualisation, computational history, German and European history since 1945, as well intelligence studies.
Adrian Grama
is a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg, where he works on questions of social, political and intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe. His first book is Laboring Along. Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018).
Renate Hürtgen
studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She was engaged in the frg opposition and co-founder of the “initiative for an independent trade union” in 1989. In the 1990s she published on the sociology of transformation in East Germany. From 1997 until 2013 she worked at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam and published on the history of the labour movement, on factory life in the gdr, and on the revolution of 1989 on the factory level.
Peyman Jafari
is Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University where is working on a book project on the post-1973 history of oil and labour in Iran. His research is focused on energy and labour history, and the history of revolutions and social movements. He is the author of Der andere Iran: Geschichte und Kultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart (München: C.H. Beck, 2010), and a co-editor of Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
Marcel van der Linden
is Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, where he served as Research Director between 2001 and 2014. He was also, since 1997, professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is a co-founder of the Association of Indian Labour Historians (1996), the European Labour History Network (2013), and the Global Labour History Network (2015). He is also President of the International Social History Association (since 2005). His books and articles have been published in seventeen languages. Recent publications include The Global History of Work. Critical Readings. Four volumes (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), and The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global View (co-edited; Oakland: University of California Press, 2019).
Tiina Lintunen
holds a doctorate of Social Sciences in the field of Contemporary History. Her research interests include the Finnish civil war, war propaganda, the history of National-Socialist Germany, and the function and methods of the State Police in the Nordic countries. Currently, she works as a University Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland.
João Louçã
is an anthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of Lisbon’s Universidade Nova. He concluded his PhD in 2019 on concrete utopias and non-capitalistic economic forms.
Stefan Müller
is Researcher at the Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He researches on labour history and oral history in the 20th century. He recently published books on trade union contacts in the era of détente (Die Ostkontakte der westdeutschen Gewerkschaften. Entspannungspolitik zwischen Zivilgesellschaft und internationaler Politik 1969 bis 1989, Bonn: Dietz Verlag, 2020) and as co-editor with Knud Andresen on deregulation (Contesting Deregulation. Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017).
Raquel Varela
is a historian, researcher and University Professor at the New University of Lisbon/ihc and Honorary Fellow of the International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam). She was a Visiting Professor at the Postgraduate Program at Universidade Federal Fluminense, where she was responsible for the Global History of Work. She is author and editor of 30 books on labour history, the welfare state, the history of Portugal, the history of Europe in the twentieth century, the history of social movements, and global history.
Felix Wemheuer
is Professor for Modern China Studies at the University of Cologne. He belongs to a new generation of Western scholars who are rewriting the history of Maoist China. His publications include Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014) and A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Between 2008 and 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University.