Mollie Arbuthnot is a PhD student at the University of Manchester (UK), where she is researching Soviet visual propaganda in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. She graduated with an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge.
Kathryn Ciancia is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first book, a locally grounded study of Polish “civilizing missions” in the interwar eastern province of Volhynia, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She is currently beginning a new project on Polish migration, diaspora, and citizenship in the first half of the twentieth century.
Maciej Górny is Professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. His research interests are east central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century, history of historiography, discourses on race, and the First World War. His latest publications include Science Embattled: Eastern European Intellectuals and the Great War (2019) and, with Włodzimierz Borodziej, Nasza wojna (2 vols., 2014–18). Between 2014 and 2019 he was editor-in-chief of Acta Poloniae Historica (www.aph-ihpan.edu.pl).
Andres Kasekamp is Professor of Estonian Studies at the University of Toronto. Until 2017 he was Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu. He holds a PhD from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. His books include The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia (Palgrave 2000) and A History of the Baltic States (Palgrave 2018, 2nd ed.). He serves as President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
Michael L. Miller Associate Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University and co-founder of the Jewish Studies program. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University. He is author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (Stanford, 2011) and co-editor of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (Routledge, 2016). He is currently writing a history of Hungarian Jewry, titled Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys.
Immo Rebitschek is research associate for the chair of East European history at the University of Jena. His main fields of interests are the history of the Stalinism and the late Russian Empire. His dissertation, Die disziplinierte Diktatur, was published in 2018 and deals with the Soviet procuracy between 1938 and 1956. Currently he is working on a book about famines as political and cultural challenges in the late Russian Empire.
Dominique Kirchner Reill is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Miami. Her first book, Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice, was published by Stanford University Press (2012) and awarded the Center for Austrian Studies’ Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Smith Award. Her next book, The Fiume Crisis: Surviving in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire is under contract with Harvard University Press in 2020.
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. He is author of Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (2014).
Darius Staliunas is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (2007); Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (2015); and Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (2015; co-author Dangiras Mačiulis). Since 2000, Staliunas has been a Deputy Director at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His research interests include issues of Russian nationality policy, ethnic conflicts, and the problems of places of memory.
Christine Varga-Harris is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University. Her publications include Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years (Cornell University Press, 2015); chapters in Divided Dreamworlds? (2012) and The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (2006); and an article in the Journal of Social History (2008). Her current research focuses on Soviet relations with non-aligned countries from the perspective of gender.
