Rachel Fuchs is Regents' Professor of History Emerita at Arizona State University, USA. Her publications focus on women, children, paternity and the family within the context of the state, law, medicine and social welfare in modern France.
Anne Epstein is a historian, project researcher and adjunct lecturer based in Helsinki, Finland. She has taught at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyvaskyla In Finland, and at the Strasbourg Institute of Political Studies, Science Po Paris, and the University of Strasbourg in France, where she remains affiliated with the research unit SAGE (Societies, Actors, Government in Europe).