Karen Vallgårda

Karen Vallgårda, Professor of History, University of CopenhagenKaren Vallgårda is Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. A social and cultural historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, her work focuses on childhood, family, and the history of emotions, with particular attention to gender, race, class, and age, and to methodological innovation in the field. She is the author of Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission (Palgrave, 2014) and has published widely on the history of emotions, childhood, and family in Denmark and India. She has directed interdisciplinary research projects, held visiting fellowships at international research institutions, and won several research scholarships and awards.