A Cultural History of Youth

Stephanie Olsen (Ph.D, FRHistS), is an historian of childhood and youth, education, experiences and the emotions, with a particular focus on the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is a Senior Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (Tampere University), having previously held positions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions (Berlin) and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She is the author/co-author of two monographs, Juvenile Nation: Youth, Emotions and the Making of the Modern British Citizen (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, c. 1870-1970 (2014), and the editor of Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History: National, Colonial and Global Perspectives (2015). Along with Heidi Morrison, she is the editor of the 4-volume Children, Childhood and Youth in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Primary Source Collection. She co-edits the journal History of Education. Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA. She is the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader (2012).

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Youth in Antiquity
Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK and Ville Vuolanto, Tampere University, Finland
1. Concepts of Youth, Evan Jewell
2. Spaces and Places, Anna Boozer
3. Education and Work: Youth in Early China, Anne Kinney
4. Leisure and Play: Greek and Roman Views, Véronique Dasen and Marco Vespa
5. Emotions, Olympia Bobou
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Elina Pyy
7. Belief and Ideology, Fanny Dolansky
8. Authority and Agency, Christian Laes
9. War and Conflict, Nigel Kennell
10. Towards a Global History, April Pudsey and Ville Vuolanto

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Youth in the Medieval Age
Edited by Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
1. Concepts of Youth, Robert Grout
2. Spaces and Places, P.J.P. Goldberg
3. Education and Work, Sarah Lynch
4. Leisure and Play, Johan MacKechnie
5. Emotions, Melissa Raine
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Kim Phillips
7. Belief and Ideology, Jana Matthews
8. Authority and Agency, Eve Salisbury
9. War and Conflict, Annika Pissin
10. Towards a Global History, Daniel T. Kline

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance
Edited by Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick, UK
1. Concepts of Youth, Janay Nugent
2. Spaces and Places, Zehra Ilhan and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
3. Education and Work, Julia Gossard
4. Leisure and Play, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Jenni Kuuliala
5. Emotions, Claudia Jarzebowski
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Marianna G. Muravyeva
7. Belief and Ideology, Lucy Underwood
8. Authority and Agency, Raisa Maria Toivo
9. War and Conflict, Dolly Mackinnon
10. Towards a Global History, Nick Terpstra


Volume 4: A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Adriana Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada
1. Concepts of Youth, Kristin H. Williams
2. Spaces and Places, Valentina Tikoff
3. Education and Work, Mary Jo Maynes
4. Leisure and Play, Benjamin Roberts
5. Emotions, Katie Barclay
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Sarah Toulalan
7. Belief and Ideology, Kelly J. Whitmer
8. Authority and Agency, Loren Lerner
9. War and Conflict, Roland Pietsch
10. Towards a Global History, Claudia Jarzebowski

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Empire
Edited by David M. Pomfret, University of Hong Kong
1. Concepts of Youth, David Pomfret
2. Spaces and Places, Matt Parnell
3. Education and Work, Colin Heywood
4. Leisure and Play, Harald Fischer-Tiné
5. Emotions, Kristine Alexander
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Corrie Decker
7. Belief and Ideology, Sayaka Chatani
8. Authority and Agency, Abosede George
9. War and Conflict, Jialin Christina Wu
10. Towards a Global History, Richard Ivan Jobs


Volume 6: A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
Edited by Simon Sleight, King's College London, UK and Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge, Canada
1. Concepts of Youth, David Pomfret and Nicholas L. Syrett
2. Spaces and Places, Dylan Baun and Carla Pascoe Leahy
3. Education and Work, Abosede George
4. Leisure and Play, Sharon Brookshaw and Melanie Tebbutt
5. Emotions, Karen Vallgårda
6. Gender, Sexuality and the Body, Ishita Pande
7. Belief and Ideology, Susan Whitney
8. Authority and Agency, Valeria Manzano
9. War and Conflict, Mischa Honeck and Aaron Moore
10. Towards a Global History, Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight