Editorial Staff

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-chief, Dr. Simo Mikkonen is Professor of sociocultural remembering at the University of Eastern Finland. He is specialized 20^th Century East European and East Central European cultural history. He is interested in Cold War era culture and cultural diplomacy, transnational networks, but also the use of history and memory politics, as well as study is history learning. Before moving to the University of Eastern Finland, Mikkonen worked more than 20 years at the University of Jyväskylä's department of history and ethnology.

E-mail: simo.mikkonen(at)uef.fi

Managing Editor

Managing editor, Heidi Kurvinen is affiliated in Cultural History at the University of Turku, and works as an Associate Professor in Women's and Gender History at the University of Bergen. She has spesialised in the history of feminism and journalism history.

E-mail: heidi.kurvinen(at)utu.fi

Editors

Dr. Maria Julku is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, where she is participating in a Kone Foundation-financed research on the image of Russia and Ukraine in 1991–2022 as conveyed by the Finnish media. Julku is interested in the formation of mental images and information, practical administration, state formation, northern peripheral areas and person-centered historical research. Her dissertation (2022) concerned early 17th-century administrative history.

E-mail: maria.julku(at)oulu.fi

Dr. Alina Kuusisto is a postdoctoral researcher at Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. In 2017, she defended her thesis in the field of Finnish history on the topic of the politicization of universities in the 1970s, and has since focused her research on regional and educational history and the use of oral history methods. Currently, she is involved in research projects related to rural schools and cross-border cooperation.

E-mail: alina.kuusisto@uef.fi

Dr. Tiina Männistö-Funk is an Academy Research Fellow and an adjunct professor for the history of technology (title of docent) at the university of Turku, Department of Finnish History. Männistö-Funk's research deals for example with the history of everyday material practices in the 20th century, sound technologies, and the use of photographs as historical sources. In the most recent years she has especially studied the history of urban traffic and planning.

E-mail: tiiman(at)utu.fi

Riikka Taavetti holds a doctoral degree in social sciences and works as a university lecturer in gender studies at the University of Turku. Her research addresses history of sexuality, queer history and politics of memory. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Helsinki, 2018) focused on personal and cultural queer memories in Estonia and Finland.

E-mail: riikka.taavetti(a)utu.fi

Review editor

Dr. Anna Niiranen is Research Fellow at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä (Finland). In her doctoral thesis (2020), Niiranen explored the cultural history of childbirth in nineteenth-century Britain. Currently, she is conducting postdoctoral research on the cultural history of diplomacy, the role of diplomatic wives, and dress history in the context of the Cold War.

E-mail: anna.a.niiranen(at)jyu.fi