Jan Burzlaff is the William A. Ackman Fellow at Harvard University. A historian of first-hand experiences of violence and genocide, Burzlaff has published on pogroms, the social and cultural history of Western and Eastern Europe during the Second World War and global and comparative aspects of mass violence in sources such as The Historical Journal, the Journal of Genocide Research, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and forthcoming in The English Historical Review. His current project is a transnational history of Jewish survival during the Holocaust.
Gianluca Fantoni is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has previously worked at the University of Strathclyde, where he completed a PhD with a thesis on the cinematographic production of the Italian Communist Party. He has published two monographs: Italy through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946–79) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Storia della Brigata ebraica (A History of the Jewish Brigade) (Einaudi, 2022). He has also published in journals such as The Journal of Modern History and Modern Italy, as well as appearing in edited collections. His current research interests include the public history of the Italian left, the public use of history in postwar Italy, Italian postwar cinema, and the use of cinematic texts in historical study.
John Gillespie is a Program Coordinator for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership in the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has received master's degrees in History from Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University and is completing his PhD at Vanderbilt. His dissertation, tentatively titled ‘Beer Country: Beer, Identity, and the State in Postwar Central Europe’, explores the importance of beer as a cultural commodity in West Germany, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. He investigates its power to anchor certain conceptions of gender, class, or national identity and its impact on state policy.
Benjamin W. Goossen is Assistant Professor of Environmental History and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. USA. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of modern environmental history, European and international history, and the history of science. Goossen is the author of Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era (Princeton University Press, 2017). His scholarship has appeared in venues including Antisemitism Studies, German Studies Review and the Journal of Global History. He is currently completing a book about the 1957–8 International Geophysical Year.
Stephen G. Gross is jointly appointed in the Department of History and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. His research focuses on twentieth-century Germany, the European political economy, and energy policy. His recent book, Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2023), traces the evolving political economy of energy transitions in West Germany after 1945. His first book, Export Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2015), uses the concepts of soft power and informal empire to explore the international political economy that undergirded Hitler's imperial ambitions. His research has been supported by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Fabio Guidali gained a joint PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Milan and the Free University in Berlin. He is a research fellow in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan and a member of the Committee of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit). He investigates the history of intellectuals and culture in twentieth-century Europe, with particular attention to associations, networks and forms of political commitment. His research also focuses on the history of journalism. He recently published Un intellettuale europeo. Umberto Campagnolo tra antifascismo e guerra fredda (Pacini, 2023).
Heinrich Hartmann is Professor for Social and Economic History and for the History of Knowledge at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He has also held positions at the universities of Konstanz, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland, and was an invited research fellow at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, Princeton University and the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on networks of development in the Mediterranean region. Recently, he published a monograph on rural development and international expertise in Turkey, Eigensinnige Musterschüler [Headstrong Model Students] (Campus, 2020).
Gaia Lott received a PhD in the History of International Relations from the University of Florence in 2016. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Torino), a visiting fellow at the Wilson Center (Washington, DC) and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute (Fiesole). She now works for the Italian Ministry of the Interior as the official responsible for the examination of asylum applications, specialising in human trafficking and gender-based violence. Her research interests include history of international relations, history of European integration, African history, asylum policies and policies to counteract human trafficking.
Marina Pérez de Arcos is the Head of History and Politics at the continental European campuses of the London School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and serves as the Secretary of the German History Society and a Trustee of the British Spanish Society. Additionally, she is a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she earned her doctorate. For four years she served as the Spanish Studies coordinator at Oxford. Among her various research projects, she is working on a monograph that examines Spain's internationalisation in the 1980s under Felipe González.
Giorgia Priorelli is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and an associate research fellow at the International Centre on Democracies and Democratization in Rome. She holds a PhD in Political History at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ‘Guido Carli’ in Rome. She has been a visiting fellow in several research centres of excellence, including the European University Institute in Florence, Durham University, the Universitat de Valencia, the Università di Bologna and the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. Among her publications is the monograph Italian Fascism and Spanish Falangism in Comparison: Constructing the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Adelina Stefan is a post-doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at the University of Luxembourg. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Previously, she held positions at the European University Institute and the Central European University.
