Danielle Beaujon is Assistant Professor of History and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research focuses on question of policing, race and power in the French Empire, with a focus on North Africa.

Christopher Bickerton is Professor of Modern European Politics and Society at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is also an Official Fellow in politics at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He completed his graduate work at the universities of Geneva and Oxford and taught at the University of Amsterdam and Sciences Po Paris before coming to Cambridge. In 2012 he published European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States (Oxford University Press), which developed an account of European integration through a study of the transformation of European states. In 2021 he published Technopopulism (co-authored with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Oxford University Press) on the transformation of European party systems and the relationship between technocracy and populism. He is currently working on a contemporary history of Europe to be published with Allen Lane.

Stanisław Boridczenko is a research fellow at the Institute of History, University of Szczecin. His scholarly interests focus on the dynamics of identity formation along the Russian frontiers, with particular emphasis on the phenomena of national and state indifference, the politics of memory in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts, and Russian historiographical traditions in interpreting Polish–Russian relations.

Eleni Braat is Associate Professor in Political History at Utrecht University, specialising in history of intelligence and state secrecy, and the related political tensions during the twentieth century. More specifically, her research concerns organisational (working) cultures of intelligence services, and their relation to memory, political legitimacy and democratisation.

Dr Braat obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2008), and she has been trained at the University of Amsterdam, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has been the official historian of the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD).

Michèle Corthals is a PhD student at the History Department of the University of Antwerp. She studied political science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2009) and history at the University of Antwerp (2015). Since October 2018, she has been working on her PhD project, ‘The Gender of Resistance: Discourses and Practices of Female Resistance in Belgium during the Second World War’. She is a member of Power in History (Centre for Political History). Michèle published on her research in the Journal of Belgian History, including the articles ‘“Ménagères à l’action!” De Belgische clandestiene communistische vrouwenpers over vrouwelijk verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog’ (2022) and ‘“La Résistance n’a pas encore son historien.” Verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de Belgische historiografie (1944–2020)’ (co-author with Babette Weyns, 2022).

Santiago de Navascués is an early career historian known for his international perspective, interdisciplinary approach and notable publication record. He completed his undergraduate studies in history at the University of Navarra before pursuing a PhD at the same institution, focusing on the political and intellectual career of Salvador de Madariaga. In September 2020, he successfully defended his thesis with distinction (Excellent Cum Laude, International Mention). Following his doctoral studies, Santiago undertook a postdoctoral research position at the International University of La Rioja from April 2021 to August 2023. Currently, he serves as an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Navarra, where he teaches courses in philosophy, politics and economics, international relations, and journalism. During his academic journey, Santiago received two competitive scholarships for research abroad, spending time at the University of Notre Dame from June to December 2018 and later at the University of Geneva from December 2019 to March 2020. His research interests centre on the history of liberalism in the twentieth century, particularly its interaction with European intellectuals and politicians. He approaches his work with an interdisciplinary lens, exploring topics such as the role of intellectuals in shaping ideologies, the development of Europeanism during Francoism and the early stages of Spain’s transition to democracy.

Santiago’s latest publication, ‘Salvador de Madariaga: El hombre que entró por la ventana’, was released by Marcial Pons in 2023, showcasing his dedication to illuminating historical figures and intellectual movements in a nuanced manner.

Lewis Ewan Driver is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His dissertation focuses on everyday life and conceptions of empire in rural spaces during fascist dictatorships in Italy and Spain. His research interests include fascist studies, fascist empire, authoritarianism, Alltagsgeschichte, microstoria, rural history, gender studies and the Mediterranean space.

David Erdos is Professor of Law and the Open Society in the Faculty of Law and WYNG Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Alongside a research focus on information law, human rights and constitutional law, David has research interests in both British-Irish relations and in the nature and functioning of the Commonwealth both at its inception and throughout the contemporary period.

Chad S.A. Gibbs is Assistant Professor and Director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. He is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, and war and society. Chad attained his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2021. His current project analyses gender, geography and networks in Jewish resistance at Treblinka. Chad’s work has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive, the George L. Mosse Program in History and the USC–Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Dónal Hassett is Professor of History at Maynooth University. He is a specialist in colonial history. His research focuses on two key interrelated fields of study: the history of the French Empire, in particular North Africa, and the legacies of conflict, especially veteran studies. He has published widely on these topics, and his first monograph, Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918–1939, appeared in August 2019 with Oxford University Press.

He is Principal Investigator on the ERC Starting Grant Project COLVET – Ex-Soldiers of Empire: Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar World (2024–8). This trans-imperial project compares the definition of veterancy, the treatment of veterans and their political activism across the French, British, Italian and American colonial empires in the inter-war period. You can access the project website here: https://colvet.eu/.

Thorsten Holzhauser has been Managing Director of the Theodor Heuss House Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany, since 2025. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on democratisation, liberalism and the history of political parties.

Robert Hornsby is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leeds. His research focuses primarily on dissenting activity and on the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) in the post-Stalin Soviet Union.

Tereza Juhászová is a PhD candidate in history at Charles University in Prague and the University of Regensburg. She is a lecturer in the modern history of central and south-eastern Europe at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Her research focuses on microhistories of central Europe, exploring national, social and gender dynamics in urban spaces during the twentieth century. Tereza has received funding for internships, research stays and workshops at UNC–Chapel Hill (USA), the University of Vienna (Austria), EHESS (France), Humboldt University (Germany), the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University (Hungary).

Kamil Kijek is an assistant professor at the Jewish Studies Department, University of Wrocław, Poland. He has been a Prins Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York and Sosland Family Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, as well as Gerda Henkel Research Fellow at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Holocaust Studies in Munich. During his doctoral studies he held various fellowships in Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom. His research interests include central–east European Jewish history at the end of the nineteenth and in the twentieth century as well as social and cultural theory. In 2018 he received an international prize for an outstanding publication in the topic of ‘Jews and Illiberal Regimes in Eastern Europe after 1917’, granted by the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East-European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the book Dzieci modernizmu.

Mala Loth is a postdoctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on the history of European law.

Rósa Magnúsdóttir is Professor of History at the University of Iceland. She is the author of Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945–1959 (Oxford University Press, 2019), a biography of Icelandic Stalinists published in Icelandic, and numerous articles on Soviet-American cultural relations, the cultural Cold War and Communist lives.

Annalisa Martin is a historian of modern Germany and a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Gender History. She researches and writes on questions of gender, sexuality, welfare and crime, with a focus on commercial sex and vagrancy in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

James Nealy completed his PhD at Duke University in 2022. His dissertation, ‘Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry’, won the 2023 Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize and the 2022 Southern Historical Association (European History Section) Parker-Schmitt Award. He has previously held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. Along with Emily Elliott he is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context (Lexington, 2026). Dr Nealy is currently a postdoctoral fellow in European history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ẑeljka Oparnica is an historian of modern European, Adriatic and Balkan history interested primarily in religious, ethnic and political minorities and the way they shape modern democracies. I received my PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. My thesis deals with Sephardi politics in the Balkans and Europe. I was Leo Baeck Fellow and Jewish History Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at University of London. I am currently Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome.

Martin Pácha is a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Contemporary History and a Teach@Tübingen fellow at the Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies at the University of Tübingen. He focuses on the history of relations between the Communist Party and the religious organisations in post–Second World War Czechoslovakia. He also researches student internationalisation in the context of the Cold War. He recently published an article, ‘The Limits of Religious Plurality: The Pentecostal Movement in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia’ (https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2022.2144259).

Anastasios Panoutsopoulos is a postdoctoral research fellow in Hellenic Studies at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University. He is a historian of contemporary Greece, specialising in Greek foreign policy. Anastasios earned his PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens under the supervision of Prof. Evanthis Hatzivassiliou. During his doctoral studies he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University (2018–19) and a Hellenic Observatory Visiting Research Student at the European Institute, London School of Economics (2017). His research was also supported by the A. G. Leventis Foundation. Prior to his fellowship at Princeton he was a research assistant for the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, working on the history of Greek intelligence services, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the ChinaMED Project, TOChina Hub.

Veronika Pehe is a historian based at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she leads the Research Group for Historical Transformation Studies. She holds a PhD in cultural history from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and has published on questions of memory, popular culture, oral history, economic transformations and the history of dissidence in Eastern Europe. Pehe is the author of Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture (Berghahn Books, 2020) and co-editor (with Joanna Wawrzyniak) of Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989 (Routledge, 2023).

Kim Christian Priemel is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oslo’s Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History.

Annelie Ramsbrock is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Greifswald. She is especially interested in practices of subjectification and has worked on body culture, photography and changing notions of punishment in modern democracies.

Manuela Rienks currently works in the research department of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Previously, she worked as the curator of a permanent exhibition on the German constitution at the Bavarian Palace Administration. In her dissertation entitled ‘Sold Out’, she focused on the working environments of saleswomen in the second half of the twentieth century in Germany. Her main areas of interest are women’s and gender history, labour history, film history and the history of National Socialism and the early Federal Republic of Germany.

Elin Åström Rudberg is a researcher in economic history at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the history of consumption, marketing and business in the twentieth century and she has published in journals such as Enterprise and Society, Business History and Journal of Historical Research in Marketing.

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6774-6593.

Eivind Thomassen is Associate Professor in History at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Thomassen has published extensively on various aspects of Norwegian economic policy-making in the twentieth century.

Jens van de Maele studied history at the universities of Leuven and Vancouver, and obtained a PhD from the universities of Ghent and Antwerp. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg and a visiting researcher at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA). He has published on architectural history and (urban) environmental history, and co-curated multiple-award winning exhibitions on urban history.

Aro Velmet is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Visiting Researcher at the University of Tartu. He is the author of Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is currently working on a history of the information state in the Soviet Union and in post-socialist Eastern Europe.