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Dr. Anton Holzer ist Fotohistoriker, Autor und Kurator. Geboren 1964 in Innichen (Südtirol), Studium der Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Innsbruck, Bologna und Wien, seit 2001 Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Fotogeschichte. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie", zahlreiche Publikationen und Forschungsprojekte zur Fotografie- und Mediengeschichte.

Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia College Chicago. Her publications include a monograph, "Archibald J. Motley, Jr.", as well as contributions to anthologies and catalogs including "Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture" (2018). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Portrait Gallery, the Newberry Library, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. In collaboration with Dr. Deborah Willis, she recently launched a digital humanities project, "'Say It with Pictures' Then and Now" that recovers and examines Chicago’s African American photographers from the 1890s into the 1930s. While serving as the 2019-2020 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at Oxford University, she delivered Regarding the Portrait, a four-part lecture series that draws from her forthcoming book, "Acts of Portraiture: Etiquette, Empathy and Progressive Visions of America" which investigates the social function of portraiture.

Elizabeth A. Wood is Ford International Professor of History at MIT, where she also directs the MIT-Eurasia and MIT-Ukraine Programs. Her books include "The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia" (1997); "Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia" (2005); and "Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine" (coauthored, 2016). She has also published a number of articles in Theory and Society, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Slavic Review, The Soviet & Post-Soviet Review, Russian Review, and Gender and History.

Emily C. Bruce is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota Morris. Her first book, „Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class“, was published in 2021 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Other recent publications include work on girlhood and youth periodicals, children’s letter writing, and comparative domestic education in Social Science History, Paedagogica Historica, and the Journal of Modern Chinese History. Her new research investigates gendered and classed dimensions of siblinghood across the life course in German, Irish, and French-Canadian migrations to the United States, 1840-1930.

MJ Maynes is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the history of the family, gender and generational relations, class dynamics, and personal narratives. Her books include: Children and youth as subjects, objects, agents: innovative approaches to research across space and time, co-edited with Deborah Levison and Frances Vavrus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), in which she has a chapter entitled: “Visualizing the Spaces of Childhood in Graphic Memoirs;” The Family: A World History (Oxford, 2012), co-authored with Ann Waltner; and Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell, 2008), co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett. She has also served as co-editor of several journals, including Gender & History.

Dr. Christina Benninghaus is a Senior Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany. She has taught at the Universities of Halle, Bochum, Gießen, Bielefeld, and at Wadham College, University of Oxford (2017-2021). Her research has focused on the history of girlhood, on social protest and on the history of reproduction, including artificial insemination, voluntary and involuntary childlessness, male sterility, and adoption as a reproductive technology.
In 2023, she initiated and co-authored a position paper on the state of the art of women’s and gender history (https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2983040). In recent years, her research has focused on the possibilities and problems of writing gender history on the basis of visual sources.

Teresa Schenk studierte Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaften in Lüneburg, Utrecht und Berlin. Sie war zuletzt Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Lehrstuhls für Europäische Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zudem koordinierte sie das Erfassungsteam des Digitalisierungsprojekts „Die Sammlung Peter Plewka – Kreuzberg vor 1945 in historischen Ansichtskarten“ am FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum. Aktuell arbeitet sie an einem Dissertationsprojekt, das sich mit der Geschichte der Naturheilkunde im Kaiserreich beschäftigt.

Jana König leitete von 2022 bis 2025 die Sammlung und das Archiv des FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museums. Im Jahr 2024 entwickelte und leitete sie das Digitalisierungsprojekt „Die Sammlung Peter Plewka – Kreuzberg vor 1945 in historischen Ansichtskarten“ und war kuratorische Leiterin der Ausstellung „Aus der Zeit. Eine Kreuzberger Postkartensammlung“ (Oktober 2024-September 2025).