ISCH-Committee

Are you interested in joining the ISCH committee? ISCH committee is always open to new members. To be eligible, you must have been an ISCH member recently. To apply, send a short presentation to the secretary (isch@culthist.net) at any time, or feel free to ask for more information.

The current members of the committee for the International Society for Cultural History are (in alphabetical order): Maria S. Adank (elected), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (ex officio), Christopher E. Forth (ex officio), Daniel Gicu (elected), Josephine Hoegaerts (ex officio), Noora Kallioniemi (elected), Liisa-Maija Korhonen (elected), Yvonne Liao (elected), Jasmin Lukkari (elected), Anna-Leena Perämäki (elected), Elina Pyy (elected) Pälvi Rantala (elected), Satu Sorvali (elected), and Dana Weber (ex officio).

Officers in 2026-27: Dana Weber (Chair), Jasmin Lukkari (Secretary), Liisa-Maija Korhonen (Treasurer)

Some members of the ISCH commitee in Paris/Aubervilliers in 2026.

In 2019, the AGM of ISCH voted to forsake the president’s office.

Past Presidents: Peter Burke (2018-2019), Valerie Steele (2017-2018), Jonas Liliequist (2016-2017), Patrizia Dogliani (2015-2016), Ioan Pânzaru (2014-2015), Dina Burger (2013-2014), Hakan Ertin (2012-2013), Pascal Ory (2011-2012), Liv Emma Thorsen (2010-11), Keijo Virtanen (2009-10), Chris Dixon (2008-09)

Journal Editors: Christopher E. Forth (editor-in-chief), Howard Chiang, Damien Kempf, Raita Merivirta, Kevin Morrison, Steven Schouten, Andy Willimott, Lik Hang Tsui (reviews editor), Nikolaos Papadogiannis (reviews editor).

Book Series Editors: Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Dana Weber

Annual General Meeting Minutes and Committee Reports:

 

2026 September, Minutes of the AGM held in Paris/Aubervilliers, France

2026 Committee report

2025 June, Minutes of the AGM held in Rovaniemi, Finland

2024 Committee report

2024 September, Minutes of the AGM held in Potsdam, Germany

2023 Committee report

2023 June, Minutes of the AGM held in Singapore

2022 Committee report

2022 August, Minutes of the AGM held in Verona, Italy

2021 Committee report

2021 September, Minutes of the AGM held online

2019 June, Minutes of the AGM held in Tallinn, Estonia

2018 September, Minutes of the AGM held in New York City, US

2017 June, Minutes of the AGM held in Umeå, Sweden

2016 Committee Report

2016 July, Minutes of the AGM held in Trieste, Italy

2015 Committee Report

2015, September, Minutes of the AGM held in Bucharest, Romania

2014 Committee Report

2014 November, Minutes of the AGM held in Johannesburg, South Africa

2013 Committee Report

2013 September, Minutes of the AGM held in Istanbul, Turkey

2012 July, Minutes of the AGM held in Lunéville, France

2011 August, Minutes of the AGM held in Oslo, Norway

2010 Committee Report

2010 May: Minutes of the AGM held in Turku, Finland

2009 Committee Report

2009 July: Minutes of the AGM held in Brisbane, Australia

2008 Committee Report

2008 August: Minutes of the Founding General Meeting of in Ghent, Belgium

 

 

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Yvonne Liao

Ph.D. in Musicology, King's College London; Assistant Professor in Musicology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Website: https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~music/people-detail/40           

Global and material histories of western classical music in historiography and creative writing (particularly in East Asia and port cities); global and postcolonial legacies of empire across print and film; human and more-than-human creative ecologies; archival data modeling and technologies 

 

Maria S. Adank

Tenure-track Researcher, University of Udine (Italy)

Academia.edu 

Early modern Italian history; Gender and material culture; Family and household history; Venice and the Venetian mainland

Satu Sorvali

PhD in Cultural History, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland.
History of emotions, Modern history (from the late 19th century to the late 1990s), Press history, Reader letters, Digital methods

Website: https://www.utu.fi/en/people/satu-sorvali

 

 

Noora Kallioniemi

Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku.

Popular culture studies; film and television history; entertainment; audiovisual culture; digitized newspaper materials; environmental history and animal studies; film history of the Second World War.

Website: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Person/936427 

 

Pälvi Rantala

Ph. D. in Cultural History, Senior lecturer in Cultural history (University of Lapland), Title of Docent in Applied Cultural History (University of Turku)

Website:
https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/persons/p%C3%A4lvi-rantala
https://purorantala.com/

Cultural history of everyday life, contemporary history, history of sleep and sleeplessness, Northern cultural history, creative writing

 

Daniel Gicu

Researcher at “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Popular culture in the nineteenth century; High and low culture in modern Romania; Cultural exchange in modern Romania; Cultural history of folk and fairy tales

 

Josephine Hoegaerts

Professor of European Culture after 1800, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Prof. dr. J.A.I. (Josephine) Hoegaerts - Universiteit van Amsterdam

History of sound and voice, gender history, history of parliament, 19th cent cultural history, history of the senses, disability history

Liisa-Maija Korhonen

Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki

Website.

Histories of colonialism and migration; History of emotions and senses; Latin American history (especially Argentina)

Anna-Leena Perämäki

Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku

Website.

Cultural history of writing, autobiographical sources, everyday life during World War II, women and children at war, holocaust

Jasmin Lukkari

Ph.D. in History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki

Website.

History of ancient Greece and Rome, cultural identity, international relations, Hellenistic kings, the Roman Republic, ancient historiography, historical narratives, narratology

Dana Weber

Associate Professor of German, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. (Please add this link as hyperlink to the words "Associate Professor of German": https://mll.fsu.edu/person/alina-dana-weber)

Co-editor of Studies for the International Society for Cultural History (Routledge)" (please add this hyperlink to the word “Routledge”: https://www.routledge.com/Studies-for-the-International-Society-for-Cultural-History/book-series/SISCH)

19th and 20th-century German literature, cinema, and popular culture in a historical-cultural context

Cultural transfers, hybridity in performance and film

Folklore and festivals in historical and contemporary German culture

Dr. Cathleen Sarti

Post-Doctoral Associate in the ERC-Project The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870, University of Oxford

Personal Website; Academia.edu; Twitter

Political Culture; Northern Europe in 16th/17th century; Royal Studies; Depositions; Counsel

Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Prof. Dr.

Professor for Ancient History, Historical Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

Personal website  Academia.edu

Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World; Cultural Change in Late Antiquity; Classical Receptions

Christopher E. Forth

Dean’s Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, University of Kansas (USA)

Academia.edu

History of gender, sexuality, the body, and the senses; Modern France; European Intellectual History