David Brandenberger is Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is the author of two monographs—National Bolshevism (HUP, 2002) and Propaganda State in Crisis (YUP, 2011), as well as a number of edited volumes and several dozen peer-reviewed articles on Stalin-era ideology, propaganda, indoctrination, national identity formation, and the Leningrad Affair.
Agnès Kefeli is Clinical Full Professor at Arizona State University, and the author of Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia, which received the 2015 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her most recent publications focus on various forms of enchantment in the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods, in particular Tatar esotericism, eco-mythology, and healing.
Steven S. Lee is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Korean Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2015) and co-editor, with Amelia M. Glaser, of Comintern Aesthetics (University of Toronto Press, 2020).
Nikita Iur΄evich Pivovarov is Associate Professor of History at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. He has authored or co-authored a number of edited volumes and handbooks and some two dozen articles on subjects including the Russian Civil War, the Party's Central Committee apparatus, wartime diplomacy and high politics, the Leningrad Affair, party rule under Leonid Brezhnev, and the Cold War in eastern Europe.
Nadège Ragaru, a historian, is full Research Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Her research includes the history and historiography of the Holocaust in southeastern Europe, the history of socialism in Bulgaria, and minority issues in twentieth century Bulgaria and Macedonia. Her latest publications are Bulgaria, the Jews and the Holocaust: On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative (forthcoming 2023), an edited issue of Les Cahiers du monde russe (2020), as well as articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and East European Jewish Affairs (2021). She is currently working on a book project dedicated to the trials for war crimes in end-of-war Bulgaria.
Eliza Rose is Assistant Professor and Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Fellow of Central European Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned her PhD in Slavic languages at Columbia University. Her current research investigates interactions between art and industry in late-socialist Poland. Her articles are published and forthcoming in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Science Fiction Studies.
Sabine Rutar is interim Professor of Global History at the University of Potsdam and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, where she works as Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Comparative Southeast European Studies. In her forthcoming monograph Work and Resistance Under Hitler and Tito: Mining and Maritime Industries in Yugoslavia, 1940s–1960s, she compares microhistories of industrial labor during WWII and the early Cold War.
Susan Smith-Peter is Professor of History at the College of Staten Island at the City University of New York. She has published widely on the subject of regions and regionalism in such journals as The Russian Review, Cahiers du monde russe and elsewhere. Her monograph, Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Russia, was published with Brill in 2018.
Natali Stegmann holds a PhD in East European History and a habilitation from the University of Tübingen. Since 2009 she has held the position of an academic researcher as the chair for South East and East European History at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of east central Europe, gender history, war experiences, social policy and the culture of late socialist societies.
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Lecturer at Lancaster University. His first monograph, A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies was published by Manchester University Press in 2016. He is currently working on a new manuscript that examines the intersection between paramilitary violence and state building in the Greek “New Lands” between the Balkan Wars and the Cold War.
