József Böröcz is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His work has focused on the sociology of large-scale social change, global structures, socialisms, late- and post-state-socialist transformations, European integration, economic sociology, political sociology, moral geopolitics and geopolitical economy. His recent books include The European Union and Global Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis (Routledge, 2009 and 2010) and (with Ángel Ferrero, Corina Tulbure and Roger Suso), El último europeo: Imperialismo, xenofóbia y la derecha radical en la Unión Europea (Madrid: La oveja roja, 2014).
Aleksandar Bošković is Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at Columbia University. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Slavic Avant-Garde Cinepoetry, a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exploration of photopoetry books within Slavic avant-gardes.
Sara Brinegar received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 and completed a two-year appointment at Yale University as a Fellow at the European Studies Council and Lecturer in the Department of History. Some of her research interests include the role of natural resources in state-building, the history of energy, the history of the oil industry, foreign policy, imperial Russian and Soviet history, and the history of the Caucasus.
Dace Dzenovska is Associate Professor of Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford, having received her PhD from UC Berkeley. She writes about re-bordering and migration in the context of European Union enlargement, as well as tolerance promotion and the post-socialist democratization agenda in Latvia. Her book, School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia is forthcoming with Cornell University Press. She is also preparing a manuscript entitled The Great Departure: Staying and Leaving After Postsocialism for Berghahn Books.
Zsuzsa Gille is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union (Indiana University Press, 2016), From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary (Indiana University Press, 2007—recipient of honorable mention of the AAASS Davis Prize), co-editor of Post-Communist Nostalgia with Maria Todorova (Berghahn Press, 2010), and co-author of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (University of California Press, 2000). She was the special guest editor of Slavic Review's thematic cluster on Nature, Culture, Power (2009).
Jessica Greenberg is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the anthropology of democracy, postsocialism, and youth politics in the Balkans. She is the author of After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford, 2014) Her new research looks at legal cultures and democracy in the context of European integration.
Andrei Keller is a historian of Russia and since 2013, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Ural Federal University at Ekaterinburg, Laboratory for the Study of Primary Sources at Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His fields of research are the history of urban craft in Russia, international and interethnic relations in modern Russia, as well as the comparative cultural history of contemporary Europe.
Ivan Krastev is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His latest books in English are Democracy Disrupted: The Global Politics on Protest (UPenn Press, 2014), and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013), and After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017).
Jessica Merrill is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. Her areas of research include Russian and Czech modernisms, and literary theory. Her current book project, Folklore Study and the Rise of Modern Literary Theory: Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism, presents new understanding of the intellectual historical origins and conceptual foundations of modern literary theory. She has published in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Poetics Today, and The Russian Review.
Piotr Perkowski is an associate professor in Polish History, University of Gdańsk. For his book Gdańsk – miasto od nowa (Gdańsk: A City Anew, 2013) he received the Polityka Historical Award, the oldest award for publications related to the recent history of Poland. Currently, he writes a co-authored book on the history of women in communist Poland and is involved in a new project concerning communism, solidarity and modernity.
Mahua Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. A historical sociologist by training, she specializes in nationalisms in modern South Asia, gender / feminist theory, postcolonial studies, transnational migration, global labor history, critical development studies, and the politics of methods. She is the author of Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal (Duke University Press, 2008). Her current book project is entitled, ‘Going Abroad’ (Bidesh Kara): Circular/Managed Migration and Bangladeshi Transnational Contract Workers. During the 2016–17 academic year, she is a fellow and France-ILO Chair at the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes, France.
Alison K. Smith is professor of history at the University of Toronto. Her work has focused on two major themes: food and drink, and social estates and social structures. Her most recent publications in these areas are a chapter on the taste of fermentation in Russian History through the Senses (2016) and a monograph For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (2014). She is now beginning a project on the palace and town of Gatchina. So far, this has led to the blog series “The Case of the Dead Cheese Master” at russianhistoryblog.org.
Ivana Spasić is professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is interested in social theory, cultural sociology, and postsocialism. Her publications include Culture at Work: Social Transformation of Serbia from a Bourdieusian Perspective; Sociologies of Everyday Life; Politics and Everyday Life (in Serbian); as well as Social and Cultural Capital in Serbia; Us and Them: Symbolic Divisions in Western Balkan Societies; and “The Trauma of Kosovo in Serbian National Narratives,” in Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering (in English).
