Notes on contributors

Olga Andreevskikh is a senior lecturer in Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on queer media and culture, in particular on mediated non-heteronormative masculinities.

Francesca Campani (she/her) received her PhD in Modern History from the University of Padua in co-tutorship with the University of Lincoln, with research on the anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza and his contribution to the emergence of sexual science in the second half of the nineteenth century. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua with a research project on the role of anthropological visual and material culture in the construction of scientific discourses on sexuality between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Emma Copestake (she/her) completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2022 with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Institute of Historical Research. Her thesis examines the emotional history and cultural memory of dock work in Liverpool from the 1960s. Emma’s broader research interests include oral history, modern British history, the history of work, deindustrialization and public history.

Josh Doble is the policy manager at Community Land Scotland and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian of twentieth-century colonialism who has previously worked at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leeds and the Institute of Historical Research. His research focuses on histories of emotions, settler colonialism and race, largely within the decolonizing territories of East and Central Africa. His recent articles have focused on ‘racist dogs’ in History Workshop Journal and colonial pidgin languages in the Journal of Southern African Studies and he has recently co-edited a collection, British Culture after Empire, with Manchester University Press (published in 2023).

Lyndsay Galpin completed her PhD, funded by the Friendly Hand, at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2019, with a thesis exploring the cultural narratives of male suicide through nineteenth-century newspaper reports. Her book, which is based on her thesis and titled Male Suicide and Masculinity in 19th-Century Britain: Stories of Self-Destruction, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022.

Nicola Ginsburgh is a research fellow at the International Studies Group based at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her monograph, Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and Settler Colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919–79, was published in 2020 with Manchester University Press.

Yucong Hao received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include Chinese socialist culture, media theory and performance studies. She is completing a dissertation on the intersection of political revolutions and media revolutions in modern China.

Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi is a Humboldt research fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests span the history of emotions, hospital architecture and internationalism. Her first book, Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865–1914, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022. She is also the editor of the special section of Emotions: History, Culture, Society on ‘Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place’. She is currently co-writing (with Padma Maitland) a book, Feeling Modern European Imperial Architecture, for the Cambridge Elements series on Histories of Emotions and the Senses.

Hannah Parker (she/her) is a historian of the Soviet Union. She holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield, and works at the Open University. Her recent publications have pursued interests in the emotions of female librarians in the Soviet 1920s, gender, loyalty and gratitude in letters to Soviet authorities during Stalin’s Terror, and she is currently working on her first monograph, on letter-writing, emotion and ‘emancipation’ among women in the Soviet Union. She is an organizer with the Sheffield Feminist Archive.

Hannah Proctor is a historian of the human sciences based at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow currently working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project called ‘De-pathologising dissent’. Her first monograph, Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s ‘Romantic Science’ and Soviet Social History, was published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan series ‘Mental Health in Historical Perspective’ in 2020. Her second book, Burnout: The Psychic Life of Political Defeat, will be published by Verso in 2024. She is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy, a contributing editor to Parapraxis magazine and reviews/web/social media editor of History of the Human Sciences.

Michael Rowland holds a PhD in Eighteenth-Century Literature from the University of Sussex, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His research interests focus on the influence of individual and collective emotional experiences on structures of masculinity in the eighteenth century. He has previously published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the European Journal of English Studies. He works at the University of Sussex.