Mari Välimäki is an Associate Professor (title of Docent) at the University of Turku, Finland, and has led the project The Professor’s Household – The Royal Academy of Turku as a Family Network in the 17th Century at Tampere University, Finland (2022–2025). Her research interests include the histories of universities, family, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.

• 1. Academic Households and Families in Early Modern Northern Europe: An Introduction Part 1: Family Ideals and Practices 2. Dissertations on Family and Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century Swedish Realm 3. Martin Luther’s Emotional Practices and Family Life in the Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg 4. The Multifaceted Agency of Professors’ Wives in the Seventeenth-Century Turku 5. The Agency of Lecturers’ Widows in the Late Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Vyborg Part 2: Family Networks 6. Transfer and Management of Property in Marburg Professors’ Families in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 7. Family Networks of Scholarly Households in Turku during the turn of the Eighteenth-Century 8. Godparenthood in Professorial Households in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala Part 3: Written and Material Self-Fashioning 9. Representing Family Relations through Occasional Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Turku 10. Identity and Materiality in the Linnaeus Household in the Eighteenth-Century Uppsala 11. Objectified Cultural Capital and Self-fashioning in the Ekerman-Aurivillius Professorial Dynasty in Uppsala during the turn of the Nineteenth-Century