Poul Villaume Editor & Author

Poul Villaume is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous books and articles on Danish, European, and transatlantic history in the 20th Century, in particular on Cold War related topics. He has been project leader of international collective research projects on the history of the Cold War, and is a member of the Royal Danish Historical Society. His most recent publication is The Long Détente. Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe from the 1940s to the 1980s (co-ed. with Oliver Bange) (2015).

Rasmus Mariager is Associate Professor of Contemporary European and Danish History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has authored and edited books on Danish and European 20th Century history and among his publications are the volume Human Rights in Europe during the Cold War (co-ed. with K. Molin and K. Brathagen, 2014). Mariager is country editor of Scandinavian Journal of History and a member of the Royal Danish Historical Society.

Helle Porsdam is Professor of American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Among her many publications are Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law (1999) and From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues on Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (2009). She was project leader of 'Cultivate' (2010–13), a HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area, ESF) project on copyright, creativity and cultural heritage institutions. She has received funding from the Danish Velux Foundation for a project on digital transformations and cultural heritage institutions (2015–19).