Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is the author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans (Princeton University Press, 2018) and The World Refugees Made: Decolonisation and the Foundation of Postwar Italy (Cornell University Press, 2020). Her research interests include refugees, humanitarianism, memory, Italian fascism, and the Italo-Yugoslav border region.
Seth Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2023).
Pierre-Yves Donzé is a Professor of Business History at Osaka University, Japan, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was the 2023 Thomas K. McCraw fellow in US business history at Harvard Business School. His work focuses on the business history of healthcare, the history of the creative industries (watchmaking, luxury and fashion) and the history of multinational enterprises (see: <https://sites.google.com/view/donze/home>).
Alfonso Goizueta Alfaro is a Leverhulme Doctoral Fellow. He holds a BA in History and International Relations from King's College London, where he achieved the highest-cumulative score in the programme. His latest publication is ‘Forging Liberal States: Palmerston's Foreign Policy and the Rise of a Constitutional Monarchy in Spain, 1833–7’ in Historical Research. He has an interest in grand strategy, regime change, and diplomatic history.
Victor Jaeschke completed his PhD at the University of Potsdam in 2023. In 2021 he was a fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. His research focuses on European integration history.
Sveinn M. Jóhannesson completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2018, where he received the Sara Norton Dissertation Prize. His research focuses on the history of the state and expertise in the United States and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a particular emphasis on their transnational and global dimensions. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of History, University of Iceland. Previously, he was Past and Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and Fennell Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Félix Krawatzek is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin and PI on the ERC-funded research project ‘Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home’ (MoveMeRU).
Caitlin Murdock is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and the director of the History Graduate programme. She received her BA from Swarthmore College, an MA from Emory University and her PhD from Stanford University. Her research focuses on German and Czech-speaking Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946 (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and is working on a project entitled Radiant Health: Radiation Exposure and the Politics of Public Health in Twentieth-Century Central Europe.
Omar T. Nasr is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research is concerned with Islam and Muslims in Europe and the Global Middle East. His doctoral thesis, ‘The British Empire and Islam in the Second World War’, is supervised by Dr David Motadel and Professor Marc David Baer. Before joining LSE, Nasr studied History, Political Education, and German Philology at the University of Vienna, where he graduated with a BA in History. He received his MA in Near and Middle Eastern History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Sune Bechmann Pedersen is Associate Professor of Digital History at Stockholm University and PI of the Swedish Research Council project ‘Tourism Governance and the Making of Europe’. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies, and at the Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg. Publications include Tourism and Travel during the Cold War (Routledge, 2019, edited with Christian Noack).
Friedemann Pestel is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Freiburg. He studied history, French literature, and educational sciences at the University of Jena and the École normale supérieure in Paris. In 2013, he obtained his PhD from the University of Freiburg with a study on French émigrés in the Age of Revolutions. Since 2013, he has been teaching European history at Freiburg where he also obtained his habilitation in 2022.
Sabine Pitteloud is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at UniDistance Switzerland. Her research investigates the institutional role of multinationals, their coordination efforts within business interest associations, and their ability to deal with political risks in historical perspective. Her new project focuses on the role of business associations in shaping environmental governance. Dr Pitteloud earned a PhD in social and economic history from the University of Geneva, where she was a lecturer until 2023. She has held visiting positions at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, at the New School for Social Research New York and at the University of Glasgow. In 2021–22 she was Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. She is also co-editor in chief of the journal Entreprises et histoire and a member of the editorial board of traverse, Zeitschrift für Geschichte.
Elitza Stanoeva holds a PhD in History (Technical University of Berlin) and is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is PI of the CONDEM project funded by Horizon-Widera-2022-Talents-04 under the European Research Executive Agency. Previously, she has held postdoctoral fellowships in Konstanz, Potsdam, Florence and Sofia and a research position at the European University Institute in Florence. Her publications include: ‘Exporting Holidays: Bulgarian International Tourism and the Scandinavian Market in the 1960s and 1970s' in Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain, edited by Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack (Routledge, 2019) and ‘Squeezed between External Trade Barriers and Internal Economic Problems: Bulgaria's Trade with Denmark in the 1970s', European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 27:3 (2020).
Paul-Arthur Tortosa holds a PhD in History & Civilization from the European University Institute of Florence. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg (ITI MAKErS).
Natasha Wilson is a teaching associate in Modern European History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and visiting lecturer in the History of the Soviet Union in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University. She received her PhD in History from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She is interested in the reformist ideas, actors and networks that bridge the histories of Soviet and East European state institutions, dissent, and international communism
