Antoine Burgard is a lecturer in contemporary history of humanitarianism at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (University of Manchester). He was previously a postdoctoral fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. He holds a History PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His dissertation has received the Fondation Auschwitz (2018), the French Association for Canadian Studies (2018), the International Council for Canadian Studies (2019) and the UQAM's Faculty of Humanities (2019) best doctoral thesis awards. He has also conducted a two-year oral history project with the Fondation Claude Levy that aimed to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Canada, France and the United Kingdom. He is currently developing a new project on age and migration control in Britain and Canada.
Pau Casanellas is Beatriz Galindo fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he earned his PhD in History (2011). He is also an associate of the Centre of Dictatorships and Democracies Studies (CEDID UAB), as well as of the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon). He is a specialist in repression, the Franco dictatorship and contemporary Spanish history. Much of his work has been devoted to the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on subjects such as public order policies, social protest and armed struggle. He has published the books Morir matando. El franquismo ante la práctica armada, 1968–1977 (Catarata: 2014), and, as co-author, Gobernadores. Barcelona en la España franquista (1939–1977) (Comares: 2015), as well as several journal articles, book chapters and papers.
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is Professor of Post-War History at the University of Athens, and the Secretary-General of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy. He is the author of Greece and the Cold War: Frontline State, 1952–1967 (Routledge: 2006); NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting, 1951–69 (Routledge: 2014); The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment (Palgrave-Macmillan: 2017); ‘Pointing to the Emerging Soviet Dead Ends: NATO Analysis of the Soviet Economy, 1971–1982’, Cold War International History Project Working Paper no. 87 (Wilson Center, Washington, DC: 2018); and co-author (with Spyros Vlachopoulos) of Dilemmas of Greek Constitutional History: The Twentieth Century (Patakis: 2018, in Greek).
Pablo del Hierro is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Maastricht University. He obtained his Doctorate at the European University Institute in 2011. He specialises in international relations during the Cold War, especially the Mediterranean area, and political history in the twentieth century, focusing on right-wing movements and neo-fascism. Recent publications include: ‘The End of the Affair: The International Dispute over the Deportation of Degrelle from Spain to Belgium, 1945–1946', in The International History Review (2021); with Espen Storli, ‘Poisoned Partnership: The International Mercury Cartel and Spanish-Italian Relations, 1945–1954’, in Enterprise & Society (2021); with Matteo Albanese, Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth Century: Spain, Italy and the Global Neo-Fascist Network (Bloomsbury: 2016).
Perry Johansson is a former visiting scholar at Columbia University and Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He teaches contemporary Chinese and world history at the University of Hong Kong. Along with his recent books The Libidinal Economy of China and Saluting the Yellow Emperor, he has also published a large number of articles in journals including Postcolonial Studies, Cultural History, China Information and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
Yiannis Kokosalakis recently completed a European Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the UCD Centre for War Studies. He is currently based in Bielefeld, where he spends his time reading, thinking and writing about the complex relationship between war, ideas and social change.
Yaman Kouli studied History and Economic History in Bielefeld, Paris and Poznań. He received his PhD in 2012 at the Chemnitz Technical University (Germany), where he examined the industrial development of the German-Polish region of Lower Silesia between 1936 and 1956. More specifically, he asked to what degree the replacement of the German working force by Polish workers affected industrial reconstruction after the war. From 2011 to 2018 he worked as a researcher in Chemnitz. After that, he received a scholarship from the Humboldt-Foundation (Feodor Lynen) for an eighteen-month stay in Paris at the Sorbonne University (UMR Sirice) and the German Historical Institute in Paris. His fields of research are Polish history during the twentieth century, knowledge-based economy and European economic integration since the nineteenth century. In 2019, he began working at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. In his current project, supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG), he analyses European economic integration and the relationship between globalisation and European state cooperation, 1870–1913.
Kateřina Lišková is Associate Professor in sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, expertise and the social organisation of intimacy, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2021 and 2026 she is a principal investigator of the international research team comparing the histories of expertise in socialist East-Central Europe.
Frances Tanzer is Assistant Professor of History and the Rose Professor of Jewish Culture and Holocaust Studies at Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She received her PhD in European History from Brown University in 2018. She is interested in writing histories of modern Europe that focus on the paradoxical but crucial roles of refugees and minorities in shaping the continent's identities and cultures. Currently, she is working on a book entitled, Vanishing Vienna: Jewish Absence in Postwar Central Europe, which analyses the fraught attempts to restore the cultural dynamism of pre-Nazi Vienna as Austrians and Jews reimagined themselves and Central European culture after the Holocaust. The book focuses on how Jews and non-Jews experienced, confronted and represented Jewish absence as they pursued projects of cultural reconstruction from the Anschluss in 1938 to the present day.
John Wesley Weigel III received his PhD in history in May 2016 from Carnegie Mellon University, where he served four semesters as adjunct instructor from 2016 to 2018. He has previously written three articles for Cumberland County History, the journal of the Cumberland County Historical Society in central Pennsylvania. At CMU he taught courses on the history of Germany since the Iron Age; Germany and the Second World War; Nationalism, Diplomacy and the Origins of the First World War; and the End of Colonialism and the Birth of Modern Africa. From 2000 to 2006 he also taught several courses on world and American history at Oakland Community College. He has since left academia and is working as Linehaul Specialist at FedEx Ground in Pittsburgh, PA.
