Gunilla Holm Editor

Helena Helve is Research Professor of Youth Education at the University of Kuopio and Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Comparative Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is President of the Finnish Youth Research Society and President (2002 - 2006) of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Youth. Gunilla Holm is Professor of Education at Western Michigan University, USA. Her research is focused on adolescent cultures and on schooling in popular culture. She is Vice-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Youth for the Americas.