Till Großmann specializes in the modern social and political history of Germany. He is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the International Max Planck Research School-Moral Economies of Modern Societies, Berlin. His dissertation project on love, marriage, and partnership in state-socialist East Germany reflects his research interests in the history of emotions, gender, and subjectivity.

Philipp Nielsen is an Assistant Professor for Modern European History at Sarah Lawrence College and Associated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He received his PhD from Yale University. His research interests include Jewish German history, German political and architectural history, and the history of emotions.