Bastiaan Bouwman is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Contestations of the Liberal Script’ at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously, he was a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. He received his PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2019. During his PhD, he was a doctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz and served as managing editor at Cold War History journal. His research focuses on the history of human rights, displacement and transnational organisations since 1945, particularly in relation to post-war reconstruction, the Cold War and decolonisation. He is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally entitled From Liberalism to Liberation: The World Council of Churches and Human Rights, as well as a second project, on the post-war origins of the international refugee regime.
Alison Frank Johnson teaches and researches on the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the region's interactions with the rest of the world in the modern period. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (Harvard: 2005), was awarded the Barbara Jelavich 2006 Book Prize, the Austrian Cultural Forum 2006 Book Prize and the Polish Studies Association 2006 Orbis Book Prize. She has published articles in the journals American Historical Review, Central European History, Modern Intellectual History and others. She is currently working on two concurrent projects. The first investigates Austria-Hungary's engagement with maritime commerce in the long nineteenth century. The second traces nearly two centuries of ambivalence about capital punishment in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Republic of Austria: Habsburgs were among the first European rulers to abolish the death penalty in the eighteenth century. Additional interests include the transformation of the Alpine environment and the Mediterranean slave trade.
Mónica García-Fernández is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Basque Country, where she is part of the research group ‘Experiencia Moderna’, which focuses on the study of the history of gender and emotions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2019 she earned her PhD at the University of Oviedo with a dissertation on marriage, love and sexuality in Franco's Spain. She has a BA in History and an MA Erasmus Mundus in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Oviedo and the University of Hull. She has been a visiting scholar at Rutgers (the State University of New Jersey), the University of Barcelona and the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are the history of sexuality, gender and emotions, with a particular focus on twentieth-century Spain.
Rachel Johnston-White is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen. She holds a PhD in History from Yale University (2017). Prior to coming to Groningen, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vienna School of International Studies and has been a guest fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, as well as a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris, the University of Glasgow and Aberystwyth University. She is currently completing the manuscript for her first book, which explores how left-wing or dissident Christians in twentieth-century France understood their relationship to the state and their obligation of obedience as citizens. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History, H-Diplo and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and further pieces are forthcoming in Past & Present and in a new volume on the history of social justice.
Dorien Lanting, University of Groningen, obtained her Research Master in Theology and Religious Studies in 2019 with her thesis ‘Ceci n'est pas un Boerkaverbod’, on the partial ban on face-covering in the Netherlands 2015–18. She wrote her article for Contemporary European History during her research internship with the research project Blueprints of Hope: Designing Post-War Europe: Ideas, Emotions, Networks and Negotiations (1930–63).
Ricardo Noronha is a researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (NOVA FCSH). His research topics include social conflict, critical theory and political economy. He is the author of ‘A banca ao serviço do Povo’. Política e Economia durante o PREC (1974–75) (Imprensa de História Contemporânea: 2018) and co-editor of Greves e conflitos sociais em Portugal no Século XX (Colibri: 2012).
Trineke Palm, Utrecht University, is Postdoctoral Researcher at the project Blueprints of Hope. Designing Postwar Europe: Ideas, Emotions, Networks and Negotiations (1930–1963). Other publications that integrate emotion discourse analysis and narrative analysis on European integration include ‘Interwar Blueprints of Europe: Emotions, Experience and Expectation’, in Politics and Governance and ‘Crafting Emotions: The Valence of Time in Narratives About the Future of Europe in the Council of Europe (1949)’, in the Journal of Contemporary European Research.
Fraser Raeburn completed his PhD in History at the University of Edinburgh in 2018, where he then worked as a Teaching Fellow and then Lecturer in Modern European History. Since 2020 he has been a Teaching Associate in Modern European History at Sheffield University, focusing on Europe in the decades after 1945. His research interests focus on how ideas, resources and people are mobilised across borders, particularly in reaction to the rise of European fascisms in the 1930s. His research to date has focused mainly on international and transnational responses to the Spanish Civil War (1936–9), exploring how the ideological stakes of this conflict inspired an unprecedented global response, particularly in the form of foreign volunteers. His first book was based in part on this project, entitled Scots and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity, Activism and Humanitarism (Edinburgh: 2020).
Tamás Révész completed his BA and his first MA degree at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and received his second MA degree in War Studies from King's College London. In 2018 he earned his PhD from the University of Vienna. Between 2018 and 2021 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Centre for Humanities Institute of History in Budapest. His research has focused on the demobilisation and remobilisation of Habsburg veterans in 1918–21 from a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the multi-ethnic borderland regions of Carinthia, Transylvania, and Burgenland. Révész publishes both in Hungarian and in English, and his articles have appeared in the journals First World War Studies and Südost-Forschungen. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow of the SSEES at UCL, working in the AHRC project Europe's Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Austria-Hungary and its Successors, 1917–1945.
Roberto Ventresca is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova, where he received his PhD in History in 2015. He is currently PI of a ‘Stars Grant’ project titled Dealing with the Neoliberal Storm: Italy, the Global Monetarist Shift, and the European Integration Process (1979–1992). Prior to joining Padova, he was a visiting research student at the LSE in 2014 and a postdoctoral fellow at both the Luigi Einaudi Foundation in Turin (2017–18) and the Italian Institute of German Studies in Rome (2018–19). His research interests include the history of Italy's economic reconstruction after the Second World War, the process of European integration, the international dimension of Italian communism and the intellectual roots of neoliberalism. He is the author of Prove tecniche d'integrazione. L'Italia, l'Oece e la ricostruzione economica internazionale (1947–1953) (FrancoAngeli: 2017).
Matthew Worsnick is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Art and Architectural History at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD in Art and Architectural History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2018 and his M.Arch from Columbia University in 2007. He is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled, Designs on Territory: Mental Maps and the Fabrication of a Contested Border.
Tara Zahra is Homer J. Livingston Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is most recently the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration and the Making of the Free World (Norton: 2016) and, with Leora Auslander, Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (Cornell: 2018). Currently she is working on a history of deglobalisation and anti-globalism in interwar Europe, and, with Pieter Judson, a history of Habsburg Central Europe during the First World War.
