Víctor Barros has a PhD in Contemporary History from University of Coimbra, realised with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research fellowship. His PhD thesis on historical commemorations and the construction of public memory of the Portuguese Empire in the colonies in Africa, approved unanimously with summa cum laude, was awarded the Agostinho Neto International Historical Research Prize in 2020. In 2023 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques from Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid. Currently Dr. Barros is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History—IHC/IN2PAST, NOVA—FCSH, University of Lisbon, and he has published chapters and articles on Portuguese colonialism, decolonisation, transnational anti-colonial solidarity, politics of memory and history writing.

Cyril Cordoba is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Fribourg and at UniDistance (Switzerland). He is the author of China-Swiss Relations During the Cold War (Routledge, 2022) and has contributed essays to volumes including Europe and China in the Cold War and Transnational History of Switzerland and coedited a special issue of the historical journal Traverse about Switzerland and East Asia. He is currently writing a political history of the Locarno International Film Festival (1946–81), a hub for ‘emerging cinema’ during the Cold War.

Heather L. Dichter is Associate Professor of Sport History and Sport Management in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) and the editor of Soccer Diplomacy: Football and International Relations Since 1914 (University Press of Kentucky, 2020). She has also co-edited Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (University Press of Kentucky, 2014) with Andrew Johns and Olympic Reform Ten Years Later (Routledge, 2012) with Bruce Kidd. Her published articles and book chapters focus on international sport, Germany, diplomacy, and the Cold War.

Mathieu Fulla is a Research Fellow at the Centre for History of Sciences Po Paris. His main research areas are the history of the West European Labour Movement and its relationship with capitalism, neoliberalism and the state from the Second World War to the present. He has published Les socialistes français et l’économie (1944–1981) (Presses de Sciences Po, 2016), has co-edited with Marc Lazar European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and has co-edited with Michele Di Donato Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Additionally, he has written about French socialism in media outlets such as Le Monde and The Conversation.

Sebastian Gehrig is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Legal Entanglements. Law, Rights, and the Battle of Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945–1989 (Berghahn Books, 2021) and articles on sovereignty doctrine within UN politics, citizenship rights as part of Cold War politics, socialist human rights language in Eastern bloc-Third World connections, East German codification of anti-racial discrimination rights, freedom of movement during the Cold War, and German-German cultural diplomacy in Asia in journals including Journal of Contemporary History, German History, Central European History, East Central Europe, Journal of Modern European History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and Humanity. He can be contacted at: s.gehrig@sheffield.ac.uk.

Christian Goeschel is Reader in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. He has taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the Australian National University and has been a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a JSPS Invitational Fellow at the Graduate Faculty of Law, Kyoto University. Among his publications are Suicide in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance (Yale University Press, 2018).

Martin Kristoffer Hamre is a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School for Global Intellectual History of the Free University of Berlin. He holds a joint master's degree in European history from the Humboldt University of Berlin and King's College London and a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy/ethics from the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2024, he completed his PhD thesis on ‘Notions and Activities of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s’. He has published articles on ‘Norwegian Fascism in a Transnational Perspective: The Influence of German National Socialism and Italian Fascism on the Nasjonal Samling, 1933–1936’, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, 8/1 (2019) and (with Celestine S. Kunkeler) ‘Conceptions and Practices of International Fascism in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, 1930–40’, Journal of Contemporary History, 57/1 (2022).

Samuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and A Queer Theory of the State (Floating Opera Press, 2023).

Sarah Jacobson is a Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow with the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin. She completed her PhD at Michigan State University (USA) in 2021. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, Southern Italian Migrants and Housing Activism in Italy and West Germany During the Long 1970s, which won the 2022 Women in German Studies Annual Book Prize. Her research interests centre on questions of migration, citizenship, collective protest, and social rights.

Ivan Jeličić obtained his PhD in History at the University of Trieste in 2017, defending a thesis on socialism in late Habsburg Fiume/Rijeka. He was a postdoc researcher within the European Research Council (ERC) project ‘Nepostrans: Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions’, based at the Institute of Political History in Budapest. Since 2023, he has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Italian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. He has published his research in Austrian History Yearbook, The Journal of Modern History, and Südost-Forschungen.

Ilkka Kärrylä is University Teacher of Contemporary History at the University of Turku, Finland and visiting scholar at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his doctorate in Political History from the University of Helsinki in 2020. He specialises in the political, economic and intellectual history of Europe and the Nordic countries, especially the history of economic thought and policy, and is the author of Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960: A Nordic Perspective on Neoliberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Elena Kochetkova is Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. She served as a Secretary of the European Society of Environmental History from 2019 to 2021. She is the author of The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024).

Samuël Kruizinga is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the porous boundaries between the worlds of war and peace during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works in progress include a book, co-written with Sophie De Schaepdrijver, on the German occupation of Brussels, 1914–1918 and a volume, edited with Marco Wyss, on grey zone warfare in global history. His most recent publications include: ‘Neutral Protectors. The Comité Hispano-Néerlandais and the Fight for Belgium, 1917–1918’, The International History Review (2024) and (with Lodewijk Petram) ‘War Dummies: Structured Data on Organised Armed Confrontations with Dutch Involvement, 1566–1812’, Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2024).

Björn Lundberg is Associate Professor in History at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests concern the history of knowledge and the history of childhood and youth. His current research centres on global consciousness and activism among young people during the Cold War era. He has published research articles in European Review of History, Media History and Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and contributed to several edited volumes. His doctoral thesis (2018) examined outdoor recreation and education in citizenship among Swedish youth organisations.

Kenneth Mouré is a Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. His published works include Managing the Franc Poincaré (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and The Gold Standard Illusion (Oxford University Press, 2002), and articles on experiences in Occupied France in journals including Food, Culture and Society, French Historical Studies, French History, Global Food History, The Journal of Contemporary History, and The International History Review. His most recent book is Marché Noir: The Economy of Survival in Second World War France (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Iemima Ploscariu completed her PhD in History at Dublin City University in 2021 with the thesis ‘A Dappled People: Jewish, Roma, and Romanian Evangelicals Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania’, under review for publication with Brill. She is based between Sacramento, California and Barcelona, Spain, where she is managing editor for east-central Europe at the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org) and editorial assistant for the Journal of Romanian Studies. Her previous publications include research on ethnic and religious minorities, nationalism, music, the Holocaust, memory, and gender in twentieth-century Romania. She holds a MA in Comparative History from Central European University (Budapest) and a MLitt in Central and East European Studies from the University of St Andrews (Scotland). She can be contacted at: iploscariu@gmail.com.

Adrian Pole is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Chester specialising in modern Spain within a transnational context.

Alexis Rappas is an Associate Professor of History and the Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul. His research bears on European colonialism and post-Ottoman settings, particularly British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese and French Mandatory Syria. He has authored the Runciman Prize shortlisted Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict (IB Tauris, 2014/Bloomsbury, 2020) as well as numerous articles on the abovementioned themes in journals listed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Matthew G. Sohm is a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University, where he completed his PhD in History in 2022. His research focuses on the history of twentieth-century Germany, Turkey, and the Mediterranean in a global context, especially on the themes of capitalist crisis, migration, and the environment. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Capitalism from the Margins: The Hidden Costs of German Exports.

Liliane Stadler is a lecturer in the History of International Relations at the Department of History and Art History. Her research revolves around the role of permanently neutral states in multilateral diplomacy and conflict resolution during the late Cold War and early post-Cold War periods. She completed her doctorate in History at the University of Oxford (St. Antony's) in 2021, where she focused on Swiss good offices and humanitarian diplomacy in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet occupation of 1979 to 1989 (under the supervision of Prof. Anne Deighton and Prof. Paul Betts). She is a member of the Cold War Research Network at the University of Utrecht and an affiliated researcher at Documents Diplomatiques de la Suisse (DODIS) in Berne, Switzerland.

Jacob Stewart-Halevy is Associate Professor in History of Art and Media Studies at Tufts University. He works on the nexus of modern art, intellectual history, and social theory. His publications include Slant Steps: On the Art World's Semi-Periphery (2020) and contributions to edited volumes such as Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe (2024) and the journals October, Journal of Art Historiography, and Grey Room. The essay for this issue of CEH is part of a wider project on the reception of productivism.

Robert Shea Terrell is an Assistant Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His first book, A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany, was published with Oxford University Press in 2024. He is currently researching restaurant workers in Germany from the 1890s to the 1920s. He holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego.

Bart van der Steen works at Leiden University Libraries and publishes on the history of labour and social movements. He has published in Urban History, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, and TMG Journal for Media History. Recent publications include: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory (ed. with T.P.F. Verburgh, 2020) and The City is Ours (ed. with L. van Hoogenhuijze and A. Katzeff, 2014).

Miriam van der Veen is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She has studied History and Political Science (International Relations), and her research focuses on intelligence services and conflict in twentieth-century Europe.

Maurice Walsh worked for The Irish Times before becoming a foreign correspondent in Central America during the 1980s. Later he reported for the BBC as a correspondent from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. In 2006 he received his doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London with a thesis entitled ‘Foreign Correspondents & the Irish Revolution 1918–1923'. He is the author of Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015) and The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution (I.B. Tauris), which was a TLS ‘Book of the Year’ choice in 2008.

Alexandra Zaremba is a PhD candidate at American University and a cultural historian of modern Europe and the former Yugoslavia. She has an MA in Public History from Duquesne University and a BA in History from the University of South Florida.