José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas is a historian specialising in comparative and transnational history of modern Europe and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague). He has been a researcher at the Lech Walesa Institute in Krakow and Masaryk University in Brno and a fellow at the Stiftung Ettersberg and the Central European University in Budapest. In 2022 he completed a PhD at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena entitled, ‘The Civilization of Leisure: Spain, East Germany, Europe and the Quest for Modern Holidays’. He has published a monograph, ‘The Intellectuals and the Gulag: Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Spanish Culture (1973–1982)’ (in Spanish) and his papers have appeared in journals such as German History, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies and Medical History.
Manos Avgeridis is a research associate of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI) in Athens, Greece. He has worked in research projects at the University of Athens, the University of Peloponnese, the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has taught Greek and European History at the University of Thessaly and the University of Athens. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Archiotaxio. His research interests include postwar history, historiography and public history, as well as the history of the Second World War.
Patryk Babiracki is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. His interests span transnational histories of the socialist world, historical methodology, and applied history. His publications include Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire (2015), several volumes of essays, and articles on contemporary Russian and East European politics in The Washington Post and The Wilson Quarterly. Presently, he is writing a history of the International Trade Fair in Poznań, Poland, and a biography of the Life Magazine photojournalist Lisa Larsen.
Greg Burgess is the author of three books on the politics of asylum and refugee protection in France and Europe, with particular attention to the principle of the ‘right of asylum’ in France since the Revolution. He is presently a senior research fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Matteo Calabrese is a doctoral researcher in financial history at the University of Luxembourg. His current research focuses on long-run financialisation, offshore practices, and economic growth. His work on British occupational data in the interwar years has been published in Historical Methods and Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Lorenzo Castellani is Lecturer at LUISS School of Government in Rome and Adjunct Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University. He has published two books: Managerial Bureaucracy: Reforming the British Civil Service (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and The History of The United States Civil Service: From Postwar to the Twenty-first Century (Routledge, 2021).
Assumpta Castillo Cañiz is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Girona. After receiving a PhD in History from the University of Padua in 2021, she has been a research fellow at the same university as part of the project ‘A Fragile Monopoly? Firearms, Self-defence, Gun Licence and the State Monopoly of Legitimate Violence in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (1860–1960)’. Her research on political violence and social history in Spain between the Bourbon Restoration and the Civil War and in Portugal during the last years of the constitutional monarchy and the first years of the Old Republic has appeared in Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea and also in the collective volume Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890–1930 (Routledge, 2021).
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel is currently Assistant Research Professor at the Lazarski University in Warsaw and postdoctoral researcher at New Europe College (Bucharest). He is also Principal Investigator for an ERC Consolidator Grant research project at the Institute for Legal History at the University of Ghent (Belgium), examining the history of emergency in twentieth century Europe. His research interests are the history of law in authoritarian contexts, comparative legal history and critical legal theory.
Claus Bundgård Christensen is Associate Professor of History at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has written extensively about the Waffen-SS, the First and Second World Wars, Danish fascism, transnational dimensions of Nordic right-wing extremism and the Holocaust. He received the Danish Award History Book of the Year and the Svend Henningsen Award in 2009. He is the editor and co-editor of several publications and is the co-author (with Niels Poulsen and Peter Scharff Smith) of War, Genocide and Cultural Memory: The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today (Anthem Press, 2023).
Lucia Coppolaro is Associate Professor in History of International Relations at the University of Padova (Italy). Her research interests lie in the history of international economic organisations and international trade. She has published numerous works on the European Union, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the European Investment Bank and her articles have been published in The International History Review, Journal of European Integration History and Contemporary European History. She is the author of The Making of a World Trading Power: The European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy Round Negotiations (1963–1967) (Routledge, 2016) and edited (with Helen Kavvadia) Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics (Routledge, 2022).
Magdalini Fytili is Beatriu de Pinós post-doctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and associate professor of Spanish History at the Hellenic Open University. She has worked as principal investigator of the research programme ‘Politics of Recognition: The Afterlife of the Greek Resistance in Law, History and Memory, 1944–2006’ (PORE), and as a post-doctoral researcher at the European programmes ‘Reshape the Narratives on Female Resistance in Europe’ (WIRE), ‘Enhancing Social Cohesion through Sharing the Cultural Heritage of Forced Migrations’ (SO-CLOSE) and ‘Rethinking the Past, Anticipating the Future’ (REPAST). Her research interests include transnational history, post-transition and memory studies.
Jonne Harmsma is currently based at the Centre for Parliamentary History at Radboud University Nijmegen where his research focuses on Dutch and European political history, economic thinking, monetary affairs, and financial policy. In the spring of 2022, he was visiting scholar in comparative and transnational European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is co-author of the monograph Grote idealen, smalle marges, about Dutch politics in the long 1970s, published in September 2022. Earlier publications include an academic biography of the Dutch economist, prime minister, and internationally renowned central banker Jelle Zijlstra (1918–2001) and the edited volume The Biographical Turn: Lives in History (Routledge, 2016).
Orsi Husz is a professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. Until recently, she held a position as a professor of Economic History at the same university. Her research spans different areas of the cultural history of economic life in the twentieth century. Currently, she conducts the research project ‘The Business of Identity: Money and Identification in Twentieth Century Sweden’ and participates in the research programme ‘Neoliberalism in the Nordics’ (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond).
Kristýna Kaucká is a research fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she focuses on human interactions with nature, especially property ownership and landscape exploration. She is the author and co-author of several monographs and actively presents her work at international conferences. She is a member of the European Business History Association, COST Action Who Cares in Europe and the Department of Agrarian History of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Julie R. Keresztes is a historian of modern Germany who specialises in the Third Reich and the Holocaust. She is the 2022–24 American University and Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. Keresztes received her PhD with distinction in History from Boston University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the German Historical Institute, the Leo Baeck Institute, the American Academy for Jewish Research, and the Central European History Society. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on photography in Nazi Germany, and is working on a critical biography of Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer.
Friederike Kind-Kovacs is a senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden and a senior lecturer at Regensburg University. Between 2017 and 2019 she held fellowships at IAS Budapest and the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Publications include Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press, 2014), for which she won the USC Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015, and Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War (IUP Budapest, 2022), for whose research she received the ‘Regensburg Prize for Women in Academia and the Arts' in 2019. She has also co-authored The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (Oxford University Press, 2022) and co-edited From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File: Public Health in Eastern Europe (Central European Press, 2017) and Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational Media during and after Socialism (Berghahn, 2013).
Eleni Kouki is a researcher at the Jewish Museum of Greece and adjunct lecturer of Public History at the Hellenic Open University. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the research programme ‘Politics of Recognition: The Afterlife of the Greek Resistance in Law, History and Memory, 1944–2006’ (University of Athens) and the research programme ‘Censorship in the Visual Arts and Cinema’ (Panteion University). In 2021–2 she participated as a national expert in the project ‘Countering Distortion of the Genocide of the Roma in Southeastern Europe: A Key Element for Developing Anti-Racism Strategies and Anti-Discrimination Policies and Practices’ (Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities & François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University). Her research interests include postwar history, memory and public history, as well as the history of the Holocaust.
Giada Lagana is a Lecturer in Politics at LAWPL and President of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies (IACES). She has recently completed a book entitled The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). In 2021, Dr Lagana was awarded the Simone Veil Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), for her research on the European Union and peacebuilding. Her research interests to date include post-Brexit socio-spatial relations on the Island of Ireland, and the impact of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on constitutional and intergovernmental arrangements between the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Paweł Machcewicz is a historian and professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 2008 to 2017 he was the director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. He has taught at Warsaw University and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and was a co-founder of the Institute of National Remembrance where he was director of research and education from 2002 to 2006. Recent publications include Poland`s War on Radio Free Europe 1950–1989 (Stanford University Press, 2014) and The War That Never Ends: The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (De Gruyter, 2019).
Benoît Majerus obtained a PhD in History at the Free University of Brussels and is a Professor of European History at the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on the history of psychiatry in the twentieth century and the history of offshore financial centres.
Edenz Maurice is an affiliated researcher to the History Centre of Sciences Po (CHSP) and the Centre de recherches sur les mondes américains (CERMA-EHESS). In addition, he is the scientific secretary of the department of the history of the prefectural corps at the Institut des hautes études du ministère de l'Intérieur (IHEMI). His work has focused on the history and socio-politics of the state. It also examines the colonial and post-colonial educational field of French overseas territories. He has recently published Guyane, la promesse républicaine. Faire France Outre-mer 1920–1980 (Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2022).
Zachary Mazur is Senior Historian at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and a lecturer at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research uncovers the interaction between economics, law and nationalism in East Central Europe.
Peter McLoughlin works in the broad field of contemporary political history in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the Northern Ireland problem and peace process. His most notable publication in this field is his book on the Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume – John Hume and the Revision of Irish Nationalism (Manchester University Press, 2010). Dr McLoughlin's work also explores international and diaspora contributions to peace-making, and he was a Fulbright Scholar on a project exploring the role of the US government and Irish-America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process.
Sarah Panzer is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Missouri State University. Her dissertation ‘The Prussians of the East: Samurai, Bushido, and Japanese Honor in the German Imagination, 1905–1945’ (University of Chicago) won the 2015 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize. Her recent publications include ‘The Archer and the Arrow: Zen Buddhism and the Politics of Religion in Nazi Germany’, Journal of Global History (2022) and ‘Death-Defying: Voluntary Death as Honorable Ideal in the German-Japanese Alliance’, Central European History (2022). She is currently finishing a monograph which examines the German-Japanese relationship during the first half of the twentieth century as an alternative or counter-modernity.
Niels Bo Poulsen has been Director of the Institute for Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen since 2008. Prior to that he worked for ten years in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of a substantial number of books and articles on the two world wars, contemporary Russian military affairs, and war veterans. His works have been published in Danish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian. He is editor of the section on military history of the Springer Handbook of Military Sciences and editor-in-chief of the journal Fra krig og fred [From War and Peace], published by the Danish branch of the International Commission of Military History. His latest co-authored book is War, Genocide and Cultural Memory: The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today (Anthem Press, 2023).
Szinan Radi is a social and economic historian of Eastern Europe with a special focus on Hungary. His research considers state-society relations, everyday economic life, and the popular experience of early-communist rule. He obtained his PhD in History from the University of Nottingham in 2022, and he is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.
Gloria Román Ruiz completed her PhD at the University of Granada. She has carried out research stays at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and at the University of Bristol. Her line of research has focused on the study of rural everyday life during the Franco dictatorship (1939–79), particularly the practices of everyday resistance, the social policies of the regime, social and moral control and the processes of democratic learning during the late Franco regime and the transition. Publications include Franquismo de carne y hueso. Entre el consentimiento y las resistencias cotidianas (PUV, 2020) and Delinquir o morir. El pequeño estraperlo en la Granada de posguerra (Comares, 2015). She is also the author of several book chapters and articles in specialised journals such as Memory Studies Journal, Paedagogica Historica and European History Quarterly.
Peter Scharff Smith is Professor in the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has studied history and social science, holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has also done research at the University of Cambridge and at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He has written extensively about the Waffen-SS and the war of extermination at the Eastern front, and has also conducted numerous studies on prisons, punishment, and human rights internationally and in the Nordic countries. He is the author or co-author of eleven monographs and co-editor of six edited collections. His latest co-authored book is War, Genocide and Cultural Memory: The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today (Anthem Press, 2023).
Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster. Her research interests are in European integration history, transatlantic relations and biography. She recently published Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union 1945 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2023) (ed. with Brigitte Leucht and Laurent Warlouzet).
Carl-Filip Smedberg, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University and at the History Department at Lund University. His research interests concern the history of social taxonomies as well as the history of the social sciences and the history of education. He is presently working on a post-doc project on the history of the knowledge society.
Simon Unger earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2018 and works at the German Historical Institute in Rome, where he leads the international research group ‘The Global Pontificate of Pius XII: Catholicism in a Divided World’. Simon Unger was a visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and teaches as an associate professor (Privatdozent) in Fribourg. He has published several books and edited volumes on religious journalism, German media history, and postwar Catholicism.
