Martin Bruegel is a historian with the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) and Director of Research for Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS/EHESS/ENS). His recent work includes Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860 (Duke University Press 2002) and “Workers’ Lunch Away from Home in the Paris of the Belle Epoque: The French Model of Meals as Norm and Practice” in French Historical Studies (2015). He is the editor of A Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2016).
Frank-Olivier Chauvin is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Rouen-Normandy University, an Associate Researcher for French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA- Istanbul), and a coordinator for the EUROSOC Project. He is currently collaborating on an EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) project about the Bolsheviks during the occupation of Constantinople.
Wai Kit Choi is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in historical sociology, globalization and social theory. His work has been published in a number of journals, including Postcolonial Studies, Science & Society, Journal of Historical Sociology, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, and New Political Science.
Jean-Numa Ducange holds a Ph.D. from Rouen-Normandie University (2009) where he is currently an Assistant Professor in Contemporary History. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Actuel Marx and the Director of the EUROSOC research program. He has published several articles and books on the history of the left in France, Germany, and Austria, including Jules Guesde: L'anti-Jaurès? (Armand Colin, 2017), and co-edited Marx, une passion française (La Découverte, 2018).
Sara Hidalgo is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at Columbia University. She received her BA in International Relations from El Colegio de México in Mexico City. Her doctoral research examines the creation and consolidation of Mexico's system of welfare provision in mid-20th century Mexico, with a focus on how labor, gender, and family status structured access to welfare benefits. Her research interests include modern Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as the history of labor, working-class culture, public health, and family relationships.
Julia Hudson-Richards is an independent scholar who has taught at Marshall University, the University of Arizona, Point Park University, and Penn State Altoona. Her research interests include intersections between environment and capitalism, gender, and class in Spain. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as grants from the Tinker Foundation and the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities. Her work has appeared in Journal of Women's History, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, and The Huffington Post. Her forthcoming work, The Land Never Rests, is an examination of the environmental culture of citrus in València, Spain.
Elisa Marcobelli holds a Ph.D. in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris and the Freie Universität Berlin (2015). Her research interests are French, German, and Italian socialists and their opposition to war during World War I and the era of the Second International. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Rouen-Normandie.
Duncan Money is a historian of Central and Southern Africa, with a focus on histories of the mining industry and labor. He received his D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford in 2016 for a thesis on the social history of white migrants on the Zambian Copperbelt. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. His current research projects focus on the connections between different mining regions across the globe, and on preserving and digitizing the historical documents of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia.
Phil Rawsthorne is a doctoral candidate at Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the relationship between the British state and English working class during the latter part of the twentieth century, with emphasis on defining moments such as the miners’ strike of 1984–85 and the Hillsborough Disaster of 1989. His Ph.D. thesis explores the politicization of the British state's security apparatus during the miners’ strike. His work considers inherent structural conservatism embedded within those agencies in addition to examining the renewed authoritarianism emanating from Margaret Thatcher, her Policy Unit within Number 10, and senior ministers. A mature student from a working-class background, Phil worked in a number of call-center “blue-collar” jobs prior to entering academia in 2012. He is currently working on an article on the lack of unionization, and the effects thereof, in call-center environments.
Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez is a Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute (Florence) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Barcelona. His work focuses on the impact of the Russian Revolution on the Spanish anarchist movement from 1917 to 1924, elaborating upon his MPhil thesis completed at the University of Oxford. His research interests are labor history, the history of anarchism and communism, and the transnational comparative history of revolutions.
