Edyta M. Bojanowska is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history, focusing on empire, nationalism, race, and the interdisciplinary connections between literature and history. She is the author of Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Harvard, 2007) and A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (Belknap, 2018). Her interests include postcolonial studies, globalization, travel writing, journalism, and the spatial turn in the humanities and the social sciences.

Marek Kaleta is a coach, a local activist, and a graduate of the MA program at the University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.

Iwona Kaliszewska is an anthropologist, a writer, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. Her forthcoming book from Cornell University Press (imprint NIU Press) is titled For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State.

Rustam Khan is a graduate student in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He pursues research into transnational histories of European empires, built environments, and Science, Technology and Society (STS). He welcomes constructive feedback at rustam@mit.edu.

Volodymyr Kulyk is a head research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of language, ethnicity, memory, national identity, nationalism, and political and media discourse in contemporary Ukraine. His latest book is Movna polityka v bahatomovnykh kraïnakh: Zakordonnyi dosvid ta ioho prydatnist΄ dlia Ukraïny (Kyiv, 2021).

Thom Loyd completed his PhD in Russian history at Georgetown University in 2021 and is Lecturer in Modern Russian History at Cardiff University. He is currently preparing a monograph on Soviet international education for Africa during the 1960s.

Hilary Lynd is a PhD Candidate in Soviet and African History at the University of California Berkeley, and she is a visiting researcher in the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work focuses on ethnicity, nationality, and race in the entangled histories of South Africa and the Soviet Union.

Rebecca Reich is Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin (DeKalb, 2018) and the Consultant Editor for Russia and East-Central Europe at the Times Literary Supplement.

Jagoda Schmidt is a social researcher and graduate of MA program at the University of Warsaw, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.

Peter Wright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on Yugoslav development aid and technical collaboration with the Global South. He is particularly interested in themes of anti-colonialism, decolonization, and racialization.