Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/nostalgia.

Krystine I. Batcho is Professor of Psychology at Le Moyne College, USA. Her research focuses on nostalgia, memory, emotion, identity, coping, childhood happiness, family and news stories and psychological well-being.

Janelle L. Wilson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. She is a micro-level sociologist, whose research focuses on socialization processes, collective memory, nostalgia and the sociology of everyday life.