Michael Bernhard is the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the editor-in-chief of Perspectives on Politics, one of the flagship journals of the American Political Science Association. His research centers on questions of regimes and regime change both globally and in the context of Europe, including the role of civil society, institutional choice in new democracies, the survival of democracy, and legacies of dictatorship.
Tereza Burianová is currently in a doctoral degree program in Economic and Political History of the 20th Century and participates in activities of the Department of Economic History in the Faculty of Economics at Prague University of Economics and Business. In her research, she focuses on European economic history of the first half of the twentieth century, particularly the arms industry in Czechoslovakia.
Sergiu Gherghina is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Glasgow. His research interests lie in party politics, legislative and voting behavior, democratization, and the use of direct democracy.
Marius Grad is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj. His main area of interest are security studies and political attitudes.
Vít Hloušek is Professor of European politics and head of the International Institute of Political Science at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He focuses on contemporary history and comparative politics of central and western European countries, especially on issues related to domestic reception of European integration.
Anthony Kaldellis is a Professor and Chair of Classics at The Ohio State University. He has published many books and articles on aspects of Byzantine history, culture, and literature, including many translations of Byzantine authors.
Oleg Kharkhordin is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the European University at St. Petersburg, where he has directed the Res Publica research center since 2005. In 2009–17, he served as the university's rector. He is the author of The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices (1999), Main Concepts of Russian Politics (2005), and Republicanism in Russia: Community Before and After Communism (2018).
Oldřich Krpec is Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His field is economic history and international political economy. He focuses on economic policies in semi-peripheries and on the projection of power in trade and development policies. He believes that modern and contemporary economic history of central and eastern Europe is a fascinating field of study, which has much to offer to international academic discussions.
Nancy Shields Kollmann, the William H. Bonsall Professor in History, has taught early modern Russia at Stanford University since 1982. Publications include Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345–1547 (1987); By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (1999, Russian, 2002); Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (2012, Russian, 2016); The Russian Empire, 1450–1801 (2017). She is currently studying visual images of Russia in early modern European print culture.
James M. Robertson is Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. His work explores the intellectual and cultural history of eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is currently working on an intellectual history of the cultural geographies of Yugoslav socialism from the 1870s to the 1990s.
Aleš Skřivan has been focusing primarily on twentieth century history of the Far East, Czechoslovak foreign trade and arms production in interwar Czechoslovakia. In 2010, he became a recipient of the Award of the Rector of the Prague University of Economics and Business for a Prestigious Publication for his book titled Czechoslovak Export to China, 1918–1992. He has served as the Chair of the Department of Economic History since December 2012.
Pavel Uspenskij is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The author of Tvorchestvo V. F. Khodasevicha i russkaia literaturnaia traditsiia (1900-e gg.–1917 g.) (2014), and K russkoi rechi: Idiomatika i semantika poeticheskogo iazyka Mandel΄shtama (2020, with Veronika Fainberg), his research interests include nineteenth century Russian literature, the poetics of Russian poetry, and Soviet culture.
Miguel Vatter is professor of politics at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. His areas of research are biopolitics, political theology, and the history of republicanism. His most recent books are Divine Law: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt and Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt, both for Oxford UP.
Alexey Vdovin is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The author of Nikolai Dobroliubov: Raznochinets mezhdu dukhom i plotju (2017), and co-editor of Russkij Realizm 19 veka: Obshcestvo, znanie, povestvovanie (2020), his research interests include nineteenth century Russian literature, history of the Russian Novel, Canon Formation Studies, and institutional history of Russian history.
