Lia Brazil is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the history of international law and humanitarian action in the early twentieth century.

Gábor Egry is a historian, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and director-general of the Institute of Political History, Budapest. His research interests are nationalism, everyday ethnicity, politics of identity, politics of memory and economic history in modern East Central Europe. He was István Deák Visiting Professor at Columbia University and has held fellowships at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, New Europe College Bucharest, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Stanford University and the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of five volumes in Hungarian and several articles, among others in European Review of History, Slavic Review, Hungarian Historical Review and Südost-Forschungen. His last monograph, Etnicitás, identitás, politika. Magyar kisebbségek naconalizmus és regionalizmus között Romániában és Csehszlovákiában 1918–1944 [Ethnicity, identity, politics: Hungarian Minorities between nationalism and regionalism in Romania and Czechoslovakia 1918–1944], received an honourable mention from the Felczak-Wereszyczki Prize of the Polish Historical Association, and he received the Mark Pittaway Article Prize of the Hungarian Studies Association in 2018. Between 2018 and 2023 he was Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project Nepostrans – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilisation to nation-state consolidation: A comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe.

Peter Gatrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. His latest book (with Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko and Anindita Ghoshal) is Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom (Oxford University Press, 2025). He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His current research is supported by a Leverhulme Emeritus Professorship.

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of UCD’s Centre for War Studies. He is the author of several books and articles on the history of political violence and Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914–1949’.

John Horne is an historian, Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is also Vice-President of the International Research Centre at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. He has published widely on the history of France and the transnational history of the Great War.

Jean-Michel Johnston is Lecturer in Modern European History at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. His research interests revolve around questions of communication, statehood and sovereignty in Germany and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘Imperial Afterlives: Life in the Wake of the German Empire, 1918–1934’, directed by Dr Anna Ross (University of Sheffield). Past publications include Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830–1880 (Oxford, 2021).

Panagiotis Karagkounis is a PhD candidate at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute of the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis examines the entanglement of displacement and humanitarian operations with nation-building politics in Greece from 1919 to 1955. Panagiotis received his bachelor’s in political science and history from the Panteion University, and his Master of Science in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anna Lively holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde. She was previously a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen and Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Her PhD was awarded at the University of Edinburgh in 2022.

Kimberly Lowe is Associate Professor of History at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She received her PhD from Yale University and has held doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at Amherst College (Amherst, USA), the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany). Her research interests include the history of humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, transnational social movements and intergovernmental organisations. Her work has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History, Moving the Social – Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements/Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen, the Routledge History of Human Rights and more. Her most recent publication is ‘Better Fed Than Red: International Famine Relief, 1921–22’, in Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24, ed. Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie (Manchester University Press,october 2023).

Alba Martínez holds a PhD jointly awarded by the University of Granada and Université Paris 8. Her dissertation focused on the experiences and identities of Spanish women refugees in France after the Spanish Civil War. She has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Granada and the Complutense University of Madrid. Since September 2023, she has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the School of History, University of Leeds, where she is leading the WomenhuNET project on transnational female humanitarian networks in mid-twentieth-century Europe. She has been a visiting scholar at Université Toulouse II and the University of Oxford. Her publications include several peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and the monograph Nosotras, las refugiadas: Género, identidades y experiencias de las españolas refugiadas en Francia (1939–1978) (Comares, 2024).

Orçun Can Okan is a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2020, and studied history and Turkish language and literature at Boğaziçi University from 2005 to 2013. From 2020 to 2023, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in global history and governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. Okan is currently a research associate at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. As part of the ERC-funded Moving Stories project, his research engages primarily with life-writing, family and gender through problems of state succession, nationality and citizenship in transitions to post-Ottoman regimes after the First World War.

Gwendal Piégais is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin, and a member of ‘The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914–1949’ (ERC Advanced Grant Project) research team. He explores the history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe during the Great War and the history of the Russian Civil War.

Elisabeth Piller is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic and North American History at the University of Freiburg. Her publications include Selling Weimar. German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933 (2021), as well as articles in Diplomatic History, the Journal of Contemporary History and The English Historical Review. She is currently finishing her second book on US food aid to Second World War-era Europe.

Dominique Kirchner Reill received her PhD with Distinction from Columbia University. Currently she is Professor in History at the University of Miami and the Fulbright-IMéRA-Aix-Marseille Université Chair in Migration Studies. Her first book, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was published by Stanford University Press in 2012 and awarded the Center for Austrian Studies’ Book Award and honourable mention from the Smith Award. Her next book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, came out in 2020 with Harvard University’s Belknap Press and received an honourable mention from the Jelavich Book Prize. In Marseille she is working on her next manuscript, ‘The Habsburg Mayor of New York: Fiorello LaGuardia’, while also serving as an editor for the Purdue University Press book series Central European Studies, an executive member of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, a board member of the journal Contemporary European History, Vice-President Elect of the Central European History Society and a member of the board of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.

Máté Rigó is Professor of Southeast and East-Central European history at LMU in Munich. He has previously worked as an assistant professor at Yale–NUS College in Singapore and Brandeis University. His first book, Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War, appeared at Cornell University Press in 2022. His current research projects look at the global Cold War, focusing on the involvement of East Europeans in projects of both recolonisation (through the French Foreign Legion in Indochina) and decolonisation (through aid and assistance from Vietnam to Cuba).

Anna Ross is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She has published on a range of topics related to the 1848 revolutions, state-building, empire and internationalisation. Her first book, Beyond the Barricades: Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848–1858, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Her current work examines the end of Europe’s land empires and the creation of international zones after the First World War.

Nathan Rousselot holds a PhD in history from Nantes University and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research focuses on the history of international relations, humanitarianism and modern Spain. For his dissertation (Les diplomates français et britanniques face à la guerre civile espagnole (1936–1939): de la perception des violences aux interventions humanitaires), he was awarded in 2024 the Jean-Baptiste Duroselle thesis prize by the Institut d’histoire des relations internationales contemporaines. He is currently a temporary lecturer at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA and an associate researcher at the Rhône-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory (LARHRA) and the Research Centre for Atlantic and International History (CRHIA). He is also a member of the GIGEFRA (Grupo de Investigación Complutense de la Guerra Civil y el Franquismo) and the RESHINT network (Red Española de Estudios Históricos de Inteligencia).

Willeke Sandler is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University, Maryland. Her research focuses on Germans’ continued engagement with overseas colonialism beyond the end of their formal empire in 1919. She is the author of Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich (Oxford, 2018).

Keely Stauter-Halsted is Professor of History and Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the author of The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland (2001) and The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (2015).

Kim Todzi is a research assistant in the Department of Global History at the University of Hamburg and coordinator of the research centre ‘Hamburg’s (Post-)Colonial Legacy’. His research focuses on the social and economic history of colonialism, transnational business history, the global history of the pharmaceutical industry and postcolonial cultures of memory. His publications include: Unternehmen Weltaneignung: Der Woermann-Konzern und der deutsche Kolonialismus, 1837–1916 (Wallstein, 2023), Genocidal Violence: Concepts, Forms, Impact (De Gruyter, 2023; ed. with Frank Jacob) and Hamburg: Tor zur kolonialen Welt: Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung (Wallstein, 2021; ed. with Jürgen Zimmerer).

Mercedes Yusta is Full Professor of Modern Spanish History at Université Paris 8, where she also serves as Director of the Laboratoire d’Études Romanes. She is the author of three monographs and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has edited seventeen collective volumes and special journal issues. She is an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on resistance to Franco’s dictatorship, with particular attention to anti-fascist women’s organisations in Spain and their transnational connections. More recently, she has developed a new line of research on Republican exile in France, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian aid from a gendered perspective. Among her publications: Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics (Berghahn Books, 2016; ed. with Hugo Garcia, Xavier Tabet and Cristina Climaco); Queridas camaradas. Historias iberoamericanas de mujeres comunistas (Miño & Davila, 2017; ed. with Adriana Valobra) and La Résistance à l’épreuve du genre (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018; ed. with Laurent Douzou).