Biographical note

Anders Ekström received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1994, and is currently working as an associate professor at the Divison of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published four monographs, three edited volumes, and a number of book chapters and articles. Among his most recent publications are articles in journals such as Early Popular Visual Culture and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Solveig Jülich received her PhD from Linköping University in 2002, and is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas, Stockholm University. She has published one monograph, two edited volumes, and several book chapters and articles. Her most recent publication is Cultural History of Media (in Swedish). Frans Lundgren received his PhD from Uppsala University in 2003, and is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published one monograph, one edited volume, and a number of book chapters and articles. In addition, he has translated a book from English to Swedish. Paul Wisselgren is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. His earlier publications include two books, an edited special issue and some twenty articles, most of them related to different aspects of the social and cultural history of the social sciences.