Contributors

Jasmin Brötz obtained her PhD in history at the University of Koblenz, where she also studied for an MA in philosophy and history. She is a fellow in the research project ‘Semantic transformations in the twentieth century’ of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her specialist field of enquiry concerns ‘rationalisation, knowledge and scientification around 1900’. Previously she worked for the German Federal Archives for a critical edition entitled Die Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung (Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government). Currently, she belongs to the staff of the Federal Archives’ picture section and teaches at the Department for Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz. Her general research interests include German history (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), history of science and historical semantics.

Ricardo Campos is a research scientist at the History Institute of the CSIC (Madrid). He has been secretary (2006–14) and editor-in-chief (2015–19) of Asclepio. Revista de de historia de la medicina y de la ciencia (Asclepio: Journal of History of Medicine and Science). Between 2017 and 2021 he was president of the Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina (Spanish Society for the History of Medicine). He is a founding member of the Red Iberoamericana de Historia de la Psiquiatría (Ibero-American Network of History of Psychiatry). He has worked on various topics in the fields of history of public health, social regulation of illness and history of psychiatry (especially care models and the concept of mental illness), as well as the relationship between insanity and crime. He is the author of, among other works, Alcoholismo, medicina y sociedad en España (1876–1923) (Alcoholism, Medicine and Society in Spain (1876–1923) (1997), El caso Morillo: crimen, locura y subjetividad en la España de la Restauración (The Morillo Trial: Crime, Madness and Subjectivity in Spain’s Restoration) (2012) and La sombra de la sospecha. Peligrosidad, psiquiatría y derecho en España (siglos XIX y XX) (The Shadow of Suspicion: Dangerousness, Psychiatry and Law in Spain (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) (2021).

Waltraud Ernst is Emerita Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research focuses on the history of mental illness and alcohol in South Asia, and her publications include Mad Tales from the Raj (1991; 2010), Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry (2013) and Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States (2018; with B. Pati and T. V. Sekher). She has edited a number of books: Alcohol Flows across Cultures (2020), Work, Psychiatry and Society (2016), Transnational Psychiatries (2010/2015; with T. Müller), Crossing Colonial Historiographies (2010; with A. Digby and P.B. Mukharji), India’s Princely States (2007; with B. Pati), The Normal and the Abnormal (2006), Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity (2002) and Race, Science and Medicine (1999; with B.J. Harris).

Adéla Gjuričová is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. She focuses on politics and society during the late socialist era, the 1989 revolutions and post-communist transformations in Central Europe. She has worked on a number of projects dealing with parliamentary history and the history of expert cultures. Currently she leads the Czech team within the JPICH CADEAH project on ‘European history reloaded: curation and appropriation of digital audiovisual heritage’. She is co-author of Rozděleni minulostí: vytváření politických identit v České republice po roce 1989 (Divided by the Past: Political Identities in the Czech Republic after 1989) (2011), Lebenswelten von Abgeordneten in Europa 1860–1990 (The Life-Worlds of Members of Parliament, 1860–1990) (2014), Návrat parlamentu: Češi a Slováci ve Federálním shromáždění 1989–1992 (The Return of Parliament: The Czechs and Slovaks in the Federal Assembly 1989–1992) (2018) and Architekti dlouhé změny. Expertní kořeny postsocialismu v Československu (The Architects of Long Change: Expert Roots of Post-Socialism, 2019).

Kostis Gkotsinas studied history and archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his PhD dissertation on drugs in Greek inter-war society at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research interests include the history of psychoactive substances, cultural and social history, deviance and state formation, gender and sexuality, the social aspects of armed conflicts and the urban setting of cultural practices. He is currently a scientific fellow at the École Française d’Athènes, working on the project ‘“Entre global et local”. L’histoire civile d’une armée oubliée: l’Armée d’Orient, 1915–1919’ (Left behind? The global and civilian history of a forgotten army: the Armée d’Orient, 1915–1919), with a particular interest in the leisure time of soldiers and civilians in the city of Salonika and in Macedonia during World War I. His monograph on the history of drugs in Greece (1875–1950) was published in French in 2022 and in Greek in 2020. He is currently working on an edited volume on alcohol in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece.

Akira Hashimoto is Professor of Social Welfare at Aichi Prefectural University, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and studied on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany (1992–94). He has studied the history of psychiatry in Europe and Asia from a comparative point of view, specialising on the Belgian colony of Gheel and its international relevance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the history of institutionalised patients and their communities under the Mental Patients’ Custody Act (1900–50) in Japan. He is currently researching the history of psychiatry in Japanese remote islands and other Far East countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from a colonial/post-colonial perspective. His publications include Places of Treatment and the History of Psychiatry (in Japanese; 2010) and Mental Patients and Private Confinement at Home (in Japanese; 2011).

Simon Heap is the long-standing editor of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) newsletter. With degrees from the University of Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Simon was awarded a doctorate from the University of Ibadan on ‘The liquor trade and the Nigerian economy, 1880–1939’, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship. He then held the Antony Kirk-Greene Junior Research Fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. After working in the international non-governmental organisation sector for fifteen years, Simon was the first holder of the Britain-Nigeria Educational Trust Commonwealth Fellowship in 2011 at his alma mater, the University of Ibadan. He is now in the Academic Office of Oxford Brookes University. Simon’s published work and presentations can be found at https://oxfordbrookes.academia.edu/DrSimonHeap/. His latest work includes ‘Processing delinquents at the Salvation Army’s Boys’ Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925–1944’, in Saheed Aderinto (ed.), Children and Childhoods in Colonial Nigerian Histories (2015), and ‘The postal service of Calabar, 1890–1960: historical cultural artefacts for contemporary tourism’, in Paul Lovejoy et al. (eds), Calabar on the Cross River (2017).

David Korostyshevsky obtained his PhD at the University of Minnesota. He is a faculty member in the Department of History at Colorado State University. Focusing on the British Atlantic world and nineteenth-century America, he studies how changing chemical, medical and physiological understandings of alcohol were used to construct temperance arguments, discipline habitual drunkards in civil courts and exclude drinkers from life insurance.

Jacqueline Leckie is an adjunct research fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and a conjoint associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her interdisciplinary research and publications are on the history and anthropology of Asia-Pacific. Jacqui taught for several years in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Otago University, and earlier at the University of the South Pacific and Kenyatta University. In 2018 she was the J.D. Stout Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. Her books include Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji (2020), Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (2007) and To Labour with the State (1997). She has edited Development in an Insecure and Gendered World (2009), Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific (2016; with A. McCarthy and A. Wanhalla), Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (2015; with G. Ghosh), Localizing Asia in Aotearoa (2011; with P. Voci), Recentring Asia (2011; with J. Edmond and H. Johnson) and Labour in the South Pacific (1990; with C. Moore and D. Munro).

Thomas Müller is Professor of the History and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University, Germany. He is both a medical doctor (Charité Berlin) and a historian (MA, Free University, Berlin). He researched and lectured in the history of medicine at Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin from 1998 to 2006, and inaugurated a research unit for the history of medicine at Ulm University’s Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I / Centre of Psychiatry Südwürttemberg, Ravensburg, in 2006. He is head of the Württemberg Museum of Psychiatry. His topics of research include the history of psychotherapies and psychiatry, comparative history of medicine, medicine and Jewry, memorial culture (with a focus on National Socialist war crimes) and the integration of history of medicine into current concepts and reformed models of medical education. He is the author of Von Charlottenburg zum Central Park West. Henry Lowenfeld und die Psychoanalyse in Berlin, Prag und New York (From Charlottenburg to Central Park West: Henry Lowenfeld and Psychoanalysis in Berlin, Prague and New York) (2000) and has edited a number of volumes on the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy such as Psychotherapie und Körperarbeit in Berlin. Geschichte und Praktiken der Etablierung (Psychotherapy and Body Therapy in Berlin: Histories and Practices of Implementation) (2004); Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective, c. 1800–2000 (2010, 2nd edn 2015; co-edited with Waltraud Ernst); and Zentrum und Peripherie in der Geschichte der Psychiatrie. Regionale, nationale und internationale Perspektiven (Centre and Periphery in the History of Psychiatry) (2017).

Mauricio Becerra Rebolledo did his MA in the history of health sciences at COC-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, and obtained his PhD in the history of science at CEHIC-UAB, Barcelona. He studied science in social communication in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). He worked as a journalist and editor of the newspaper El Ciudadano (Chile) between 2009 and 2012. His research topics are the history of psychiatry and psychiatric therapy in Latin America. In his recent research he focuses on the figure of the ‘drug addict’ in medical discourse. Results of these investigations have been published in ‘De psicosis tóxica a predisposición mórbida: emergencia de la figura del toxicómano en Chile, 1872–1954’ (2009, http://repositorio.ucv.cl/handle/10.4151/52584); ‘Ruina, degeneración y contagio: toxicomanía y peligrosidad social en Chile’ (2013, www.redalyc.org/toc.oa?id=902&numero=39866); and the chapter ‘Ensayos farmacológicos y medicina experimental: trayectorias de los discursos biomédicos sobre las drogas en Chile (1875–1929)’ (Pharmacological trials and experimental medicine: trajectories of biomedical discourses on drugs in Chile (1875–1929)), in Claudia Araya et al. (eds), República de la salud, fundación y ruinas de un país sanitario. Chile siglos XIX y XX (2016). Mauricio is a member of the Red Iberoamericana de Historia de la Psiquiatría (Ibero-American Network of History of Psychiatry). His current research is on the development of experimental psychiatry in Peru and the trials conducted on psychotomimetic substances in mental hospitals in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century.

Mat Savelli is an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. After completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford in the history of medicine, he was a Haas postdoctoral fellow at the Science History Institute (Philadelphia, USA) and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published widely on topics ranging from the history of Yugoslav psychiatry to the global advertising of psychiatric medications. He is the co-editor of Psychiatry in Communist Europe (with Sarah Marks; 2015) and Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 (with Patrick Manning; 2018).

Nina S. Studer is a historian and Arabist with a strong focus on gender and the history of psychiatry in colonial contexts. Her PhD, which she wrote at the Universities of Zürich and Oxford on descriptions of Muslim North African women by French colonial psychiatrists, was published as The Hidden Patients: North African Women in French Colonial Psychiatry in 2016. Since then, she has conducted research into medical and psychiatric descriptions of drinking habits in the colonial Maghreb – with a special focus on absinthe, coffee, tea, wine, champagne and Orangina – and written a series of articles and chapters on these different drinks. Among other things, she has written an article on the history of teaism in Tunisia (‘“Was trinkt der zivilisierte Mensch?” Teekonsum und morbide Normalität im kolonialen Maghreb’) for the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (2014) and on absinthe in the colonial Maghreb (‘The green fairy in the Maghreb: absinthe, guilt and cultural assimilation in French colonial medicine’) for The Maghreb Review (2015). In addition to research on the medicalisaton of consumption habits in the colonial Maghreb, she is also in the process of writing her professorial thesis on the participation of women in various protest movements in Syria and Lebanon during the French mandate period.

Christian Werkmeister is a research associate at the Ettersberg Foundation in Weimar, focusing on comparative research on European dictatorships. He studied Eastern European history, political science and law at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, and wrote his doctorate thesis on late Soviet youth culture. He taught history and Polish studies at Martin Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg and Jena, Germany. His main fields of interest include popular culture, Soviet history and the history of genocide. His publications include Jugendszenen und Kulturpolitik in der späten Sowjetunion, 1975–1991 (2020); ‘Wahnsinn mit System. Psychiatrische Anstalten in der späten UdSSR’ in Osteuropa (2014); ‘Die Geschichte des GULag im RuNet: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen virtueller Erinnerungskulturen’ (with Martin Müller-Butz), in Jörg Ganzenmüller and Raphael Utz (eds), Sowjetische Verbrechen und russische Erinnerung: Orte Akteure Deutungen (2014); and ‘Johannes Lepsius und die Verbrechen an den Armeniern. Die Vorgeschichte der UN-Genozidkonvention’, in Sybille Steinbacher (ed.), Holocaust und Völkermorde: Die Reichweite des Vergleichs (2012).