Lith Lefranc Author & Editor

Laura Nys is a postdoctoral scholar at Ghent University, Belgium. She has published about the history of workers’ assembly buildings, juvenile delinquency, the history of emotions, prisons and autobiographical documents.

Lith Lefranc is a PhD researcher at Antwerp University, Belgium. She uses computational methods on historical police records to examine nocturnal social dynamics in Antwerp (1876-1939). Her broader research interests include socialist workers’ assembly halls, gender, and the Flemish movement.

Gita Deneckere (1964) is senior full professor in modern history at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests embrace the history of collective action and social movements in the nineteenth and twentieth century, including the history of feminism. She studies history from below, without overlooking the impact of grassroots struggle on those in power.

Fredie Floré is a full professor in the history of architecture and interiors and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium. She is a founding member of the research group Architecture Interiority Inhabitation (A2I). Her research focuses on 20th century architecture and interiors.