Anna Antoniazzi
obtained her Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the University of Bologna. She is Associate Professor at the University of Genoa (Department of Educational Sciences), where she teaches Children’s Literature and History of Education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is a member of the Doctoral School in Social Sciences at University of Genoa. Her main research areas include cross-media storytelling, transformation of educational models throughout history, media phenomena concerning childhood and fairy tales as a privileged form of trans-medial storytelling.
Marie-Hélène Brunet
is Associate Professor in social science and history education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral thesis focused on the understanding of women’s history by Quebec high school students. She also holds a master’s degree in history. Recent publications appeared in The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies (2021). Her research interests relate primarily to history teaching, citizenship education, teacher education, and both history of education and women’s history. She is also a co-investigator on the pan-Canadian SSHRC funded Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future and leader of the Making History/Faire de l’histoire research unit at the University of Ottawa.
Christine Chevalier-Caron
is a doctoral student in History at the University of Quebec in Montreal and a research assistant in the history, women, gender and migrations group. Her main research interests lie in the history of women, migrations and cultural transmission processes among minority groups. She is the author of several articles and a series of biography as part of the project “These Women Who Deserve to Be Better Known.” Her passion for teaching and popularization led her to become one of the hosts of the program Histoire source Story and editor at histoireengagée.ca
Yolande Cohen
is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (1976–present). Past-President (2016–) of the Academy of Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada, she is Chevalière de l’Ordre National du Québec and Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’honneur, République française. She is
Julie Fette
is Associate Professor of French Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is the author of Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2012), a study of discrimination among middle-class professionals that examines social mobility, professionalization, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia in mid-twentieth-century French society. She is co-author of the fourth edition of Les Français, the French civilization textbook for undergraduates (Hackett, 2021). Fette is currently writing a book about gender in contemporary French children’s literature. She holds doctorates from the Institute of French Studies at New York University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. She teaches on modern French society, history, and culture.
Timm Gerd Hellmanzik
is research assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He received his Ph.D. in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg, where he previously worked in the DFG-research project on German-Turkish relations in the history of education. His research interests lie in transnational, postcolonial and gender-historical approaches to the history of education. His latest publication is a monograph on the German perception of the Ottoman Empire in historical textbooks: Vom “Türkenjoch” zu “Deutschlands Freundschaft für die Türkei” – Der Wandel des Wissens über das Osmanische Reich in deutschen Geschichtsschulbüchern 1839–1918 (Julius Klinkhardt, 2023).
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann
is Professor of History of Education at Universität Hamburg. Between 2011 and 2016, she taught Modern History at the Universities of Munich (LMU), Cologne and Giessen. She received her Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of Giessen and carried out postdoctoral research at the Universities of Bayreuth
Maria Lucenti
is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and Adjunct Professor of History of Education and Children’s Literature at the University of Genoa. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Migration studies and intercultural processes at the University of Genoa in co-tutorship with the University of Carthage. She deals with the history of formal and informal education, the comparative analysis of educational policies, school programs and textbooks and the relationship between identity and education, starting from the variables of gender, cultural and religious diversity. Among her latest publications are Le monde arabo-musulmans et l’occident dans les manuels d’Italie et de Tunisie. Autres histoires (Harmattan, 2021), and an article in Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica/Journal of Theories and Research in Education (2020).
Elisabetta Serafini
obtained her Ph.D. in History and Philosophical-Social Sciences from the Tor Vergata University of Rome, where she is Adjunct Professor of Didactics of History. In addition, she is a primary school teacher. In 2020 she became a member of the board of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (SIS) where she coordinates teacher training and refresher courses. For SIS she is also a member of the Educational Commission of the Coordination of Historical Societies and coordinates the series of picture books Storie nella storia, published by Settenove. In addition, she collaborates with school publishers for primary and secondary schools. Her research interests look at women’s and gender history and the didactics of history from a gender perspective. Her publications appeared in Ricerche Storiche, among others.