Publications
Monographs, edited volumes, articles and chapters on the history of emotions, family and childhood.
Monographs
- Divorce in DenmarkForthcomingOxford University Press
Divorce in Denmark
Emotional Echoes of Relational Rupture since the Nineteenth Century
- FølelsesekkoerForthcomingGads Forlag / Nord Academic
Følelsesekkoer
A book for a broad public readership
Skilsmisser
100 danmarkshistorier
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission
Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark
Edited volumes & special issues
Emotional Histories of Relational Rupture
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Karen Vallgårda & Kristin Celello (eds.)
The Politics of Family Secrecy
Karen Vallgårda, Martina Koegeler-Abdi & Caroline Nyvang (eds.)
Forbudte, farlige og frastødende følelser
Karen Vallgårda, Niels Arne Sørensen, Caroline Nyvang & Signe Nipper Nielsen (eds.)
Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives
Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena & Karen Vallgårda (eds.)
Peer-reviewed articles
- 2026
History Workshop Journal (preprint)
- 2026
Ethics in history: introducing conceptual tools for research practices
Rethinking History (preprint)
- 2025
Historicizing Emotional Experiences of Family Violence
Journal of Women’s History, vol. 37 (4), 58–79
- 2025
Emotional Histories of Relational Rupture
Gender & History, vol. 37 (2), 457–461
- 2024
A Critical Conversation on Agency
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 17 (2), 169–187
- 2022
Introduction: The History and Politics of Family Secrecy
Journal of Family History, vol. 47 (3), 239–247
- 2022
The Family as a Locus of Illness
Journal of Family History, vol. 47 (3), 299–316
- 2021
Emotional Echoes: Young People, Divorce, and the Public Media, c. 1960–2000
Journal of Social History, vol. 55 (1), 226–253
- 2020
Ugly Intimacies and State Power: Separation Processes in Late Nineteenth-century Denmark
Gender & History, vol. 33 (1), 111–128
- 2018
Forbudte, farlige og frastødende følelser
temp – tidsskrift for historie, vol. 8 (16), 5–15
- 2018
Lykkeimperativet i folkeskolen
Tidsskrift for professionsstudier, vol. 14 (27), 16–21
- 2018
temp – tidsskrift for historie, vol. 8 (16), 59–80
- 2017
Journal of Family History, vol. 42 (1), 81–95
- 2016
Childhood, Divorce, and Emotions: Danish Custody and Visitation Rights Battles in the 1920s
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 9 (3), 470–488
- 2016
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 18 (6), 865–886
- 2015
Tying Children to God With Love: Danish Mission, Childhood, and Emotions in Colonial South India
Journal of Religious History, vol. 39 (4), 595–613
- 2015
Affekt, følelser og rum – historiefaglige perspektiver
temp – tidsskrift for historie, vol. 5 (10), 175–183
- 2014
Can the Subaltern Woman Run? Gender, Race and Agency in Colonial Missionary Texts
Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 39 (4), 472–486
- 2013
Følelseshistorie – teoretiske brudflader og udfordringer
Kulturstudier, vol. 4 (2), 87–113
- 2011
Adam’s Escape: Children and the Discordant Nature of Colonial Conversions
Childhood, vol. 18 (3), 298–315
- 2009
Review of Development and Change, vol. XIV (1–2), 87–108
- 2009
Mellem frivillighed og tvang: Danske missionærers indgreb i indisk forældremyndighed i 1860’erne og 1870’erne
Tidsskrift for Historie, 22–31
- 2008
Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 108 (2), 389–426
- 2006
Continual Conversions: Narratives by Henrik Pontoppidan and Johannes Jørgensen
Scandinavian Studies, vol. 78 (3), 303–332
- 2005
På kanten af kønnet: Om Vilhelmine Møller og køn til forhandling
Fortid og Nutid, 3–24
Book & encyclopedia chapters
- 2027
Age
In Katie Barclay & Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Emotions, Oxford University Press (in press)
- 2026
In Amanda Capern (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women’s and Gender History, Oxford University Press
- 2024
Fortiden i nutiden: Om de etisk-politiske dimensioner af historisk forskning
In Anders Engberg, Peter Harder & Martha Sif Karrebæk (eds.), Kritisk Engagement og Videnskabelighed, Copenhagen: KDVS, 78–96
- 2023
Familien, ret og vrang
In Søren Thorlak Madsen (ed.), Fynboerne: Kunsten frem for alt!, Odense: Kunstmuseum Brandts, 72–81
- 2023
Emotions
In Simon Sleight & Kristine Alexander (eds.), A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 105–126
- 2023
Family, Childhood and Emotions
In Peter Stearns & Katie Barclay (eds.), The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World, London: Routledge, 267–280
- 2022
Følelse
In Amalie Langballe et al. (eds.), ORD, Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag, 86–87
- 2022
Sobre a história e a política da família, da infância e das emoções
In Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha & Pablo Toro-Blanco (eds.), Educação, infância, juventude e emoções em perspectiva histórica, CNPq, 304–329
- 2022
Historicizing Emotional Development
In Daniel Dukes, Andrea Samson & Eric Walle (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development, Oxford University Press, 146–156
- 2022
Emotional Frontiers
In Daniel Dukes, Andrea Samson & Eric Walle (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development, Oxford University Press, 437–445
- 2020
Forord
Årsskrift 2020, Det Unge Akademi, 3–4
- 2020
Gammel erotik og usynliggjort vold
In Casper Andersen et al. (eds.), Tanker i lockdown, Det Unge Akademi, 118–123
- 2018
Tro ikke, at du føler det samme som din bedstemor
In Pia Friis Laneth & Jytte Hilsen (eds.), Takt og tone til tiden, Frederiksberg: Frydenlund Forlag, 162–169
- 2017
Følelsernes foranderlighed / The Mutability of Emotions
In Gertrud Oelsner & Anna Schram Vejlby (eds.), Fra den bedste side: Portræt og følsomhed i guldalderen, Copenhagen: Den Hirschsprungske Samling, 63–73 / 120–125
- 2015
Emotions and the Global Politics of Childhood
In Stephanie Olsen (ed.), Childhood, Youth & Emotions in Modern History, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 12–34
- 2015
Introduction: Faith Through Feeling
In Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena & Karen Vallgårda (eds.), Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1–21
- 2014
Producing Difference: Childhood, Parenting, and Mission in Late Colonial South India
In Esther Fihl & A. R. Venkatachalapathy (eds.), Tranquebar and Beyond: Grappling Across Cultural Borders in South India, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 379–401
Review articles
- 2022
Karl Peder Pedersen: Poul og kærligheden. En kontrærseksuels bekendelser
Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 121 (2), 569–572
- 2019
Book Review: Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
TRAFO – Blog for Transnational Research
- 2019
Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking
Childhood in the Past, vol. 21 (1), 53–54
- 2017
Følelsernes revolution
Arbejderhistorie, vol. 17, 204–206
- 2017
Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 116 (2), 557–559
- 2016
Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 116 (1), 254–256
- 2015
Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870–1970
Historia y Memoria de la Educación, vol. 1 (2), 409–412
- 2014
The Intricate Politics of Intimacy
NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 22 (3), 243–246
- 2009
At fortælle en god historie med et budskab
1066: Tidsskrift for historie, 26–32
- 2006
Kristne helte: Anmeldelse af ‘Det begyndte i København’
1066: Tidsskrift for historie, 42–43
Educational material
- 2021
Skilsmissens århundrede
danmarkshistorien.dk, Aarhus University
- 2019
Aprilsnar
Gyldendal Undervisning
- 2018
Dem og os – kategoriseringer af mennesker
Gyldendal Undervisning
- 2018
Historiens værktøjskasse: Følelseshistorie
Gyldendal Undervisning