Aliyev, Nurlan (University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw)

Dr Nurlan Aliyev holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and security studies. His research area is primarily focused on Russia’s foreign and security policy, the Arctic, post-Soviet countries, strategic studies, and asymmetric warfare. He is a lecturer in the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. Currently he works on a book project - Russia’s security policy, under contract at the Routledge and supported by the Visegrad Fund Scholarship for 2021-2023 at the University of Warsaw. Follow him on Twitter @anurlan

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Byrska, Olga (European University Institute)

Olga Byrska - 4th year PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. Her thesis focuses on intellectual history of the immediate post-WW2 period (1944-48) between Poland, France, Britain, and Germany. She also writes for theatre ('Orlando' in Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw) and other outlets. Translated essays by Achille Mbembe, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul B. Preciado. Lives in Paris.

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Chen, Hao (University of Virginia)

Hao Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Virginia. Hao specializes in East Asian international history. His research interests include immigration and transnational history, China's frontiers and borderlands, and the Cold War in East Asia. His current project studies the ethnopolitical history of the China-North Korea borderland in the Cold War period to examine the interaction between China’s ethnic-frontier affairs and its international relations in the Cold War.

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Godson Muojama, Olisa (University of Ibadan)

Dr. Olisa Godson MUOJAMA is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research has cut across global history, colonial history and war studies. He is a Fellow in Global History at the Munich Centre for Global History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. He is also a Fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). He is the Principal Investigator/Principal Faculty in Nigeria of the Global History Lab (GHL), Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. He is the author of The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s: A World-Systems Approach. He has also published in specialist journals such as African Economic History 47, no.1 (2019): 1-31 (Wisconsin) and Journal of World History (upcoming). His current post-doctoral research is on Deutsch-Westafricanisch Encounter, 1884-1990.

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Fastovskij, Vitalij (GHI Washington, UC Berkeley, University of Muenster)

Dr Vitalij Fastovskij: I am a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Muenster with a specialization in cultural history and currently a visiting scholar and a GHI fellow at UC Berkeley (Sep 22-Aug 23). My topics span chronologically from the 19th century to the present day. I have conducted research into the history of Russia’s revolutionary movement, Russian informal imperialism and written about German-Soviet relations and the cultures of memory in “East” and “West.” My dissertation, published in 2018, deals with the religious semantics of revolutionary violence in late tsarist Russia. From 2012 to 2018, I held various positions at the Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich. The results of my work, a digital map with German-Soviet places of memory, will be published by the Nordost-Institut in the foreseeable future. From January 2019 to February 2022, I was on the staff of the JLU Giessen (Prof. Thomas Bohn), where I worked on a DFG project on the nexus of informal imperialism and archaeological research. From March 2022, I am employed at the University of Muenster (Prof. Ricarda Vulpius). Besides pursuing teaching and assistance duties, I am working on my habilitation project which deals with the cultural and political history of migration in the Cold War era.

 

Felcher, Anastasia (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies) 

Dr Felcher is a historian and an archivist. She holds a PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies from the Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca (2016). She has received fellowships at several research institutions in Europe and the US. As a practitioner, she worked as a country expert for EHRI (2018-19). Since 2020, she is employed as the Slavic Archivist at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at CEU in Budapest. Since 2022, she teaches at the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at CEU in Vienna. Anastasia has published on the heritage of minorities in pluralistic societies, Jewish heritage in the post-Holocaust age, and literature and politics in Eastern Europe.

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Joshi, Vandana (Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi)

Vandana Joshi is Professor of Modern History at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She completed her doctorate as a DAAD fellow at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, TU Berlin. Her thesis won a Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History in 2002 and was subsequently published as Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo 1933-45. Thereafter, she has published several articles on criminalized intimacies (verbotener Umgang) between German women and POWs during WWII Germany. She has received the Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, Erasmus Mundus IMESS distinguished visiting fellowship, MPI History (Göttingen) visiting fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship. She is the editor of Cultural & Social History, and serves on the advisory boards of Modern India in German Archives (MIDA) and the Bloomsbury Cultural History Platform.

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Galvan, Valeria (CONICET, Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas, UNSAM)

Dr Valeria Galván has a degree in Sociology (UBA), a Master in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Analysis (IDAES-UNSAM), a PhD in History from the National University of La Plata, and she is a researcher at CONICET . After specializing in the history of Argentine Nationalism in the 1960s, she is currently researching the impact of the bipolar conflict on Argentine culture, particularly through war propaganda and cultural diplomacy (both communist and anticommunist) oriented towards South America, mainly through front organizations and associations of Slavic immigrants. She is the author of several academic articles and books on Argentine nationalism and the cultural cold war in Argentina in the 1950s.

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Knapton, Samantha K. (University of Nottingham)

Dr Sam Knapton is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a specialist in central and east-central European history, international humanitarianism, and forced displacement and was a Pilecki Junior Research Fellow in Warsaw (2022). Her first monograph, 'Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-occupied Germany' came out with Bloomsbury Academic in February 2023. She is also publishing an edited collection on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration alongside Katherine Rossy (RMC, Canada) in 2023, 'Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA'.

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Lafuente, Víctor Manuel (Universität zu Köln)    

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Lamp Franzika (University of Vienna)

Franziska Maria Lamp, BA BA MA is a historian and works as a PhD-researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Her dissertation project is part of a larger project on "Norms, Regulation and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Migration Regimes" funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Research Fund (DFG). In her dissertation she examines gender-specific hierarchies in the interactions with Displaced Persons and explores the role of family constellations and gender for migration from post-war Austria to countries overseas. Together with Philipp Strobl she is the founder and editor of "Transit. The Podcast on Migration History."

 

Martínez-Cava, Julio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Dr Julio Martínez-Cava - Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Degree in Philosophy and Master’s Degree in Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid and PhD in Sociology at the University of Barcelona (2020), where he has also been Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology (2021). Visiting scholar at the Centre Européen Des Études Républicaines (CEDRE) of Paris (2019) and the International Institute of Social History of Amsterdam (2022). Member of the Editorial Board of Sin Permiso magazine. His PhD shows the systematic influence of the radical republican tradition on the political and historical work of the British Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson. He has published in journals such as Historia Social; Theoria. A Journal of Political and Social Theory; Daimon. Revista internacional de filosofía or Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas. Main Research lines: History of Political Thought, Historiography, Socialism, Republicanism, Property Rights, Theories of Social Class.

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Nilsson, Ebony (Australian Catholic University)

Dr Ebony Nilsson is a research fellow in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She is a historian of migration and security during the early Cold War. Her first monograph, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in late 2023.

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Novak, Attila (Thomas Molnar Institute of Advanced Studies/National University of Public Service/Budapest)

Dr Attila Novak – historian, senior research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies (National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary) and the  Goldziher Ignac Institute of Jewish History and Culture (Budapest, Hungary. His field of academic interest encompasses the History of Hungarian Jewry during and after WWII, the 1944’ Zionist Rescue Movement, and the political and ideological problems of Zionism in East-Central Europe and State of Israel. He was the Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of Hungary in Tel Aviv between 2012-2016. He is a member of the Hungary Forum on the History of Hungarian Jewry, which is part of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University (Israel).

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Nowak, Katarzyna (Central European University)

Dr Katarzyna Nowak is a historian specialising in cultural and social history of Eastern Europe, with a particular interest in refugee and migrant history. During her doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, she focused on Displaced Persons in the early Cold War period in the global perspective. She has recently completed her first monograph, entitled 'Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria'. She has published on the history of gender, refugees, and diaspora. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Central European University in Vienna, working on the project on the Vatican’s involvement in post-World War II refugee aid.

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Papadopoulos, Ioannis (Open University of Greece/Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH))

Professor Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos obtained his PhD in History from Panteion University in Athens (2008). He taught at the universities of Panteion, Peloponnese, Vechta and the University of Brasilia. He is currently teaching at the Hellenic Open University and is a fellow at the Center for Modern History Research at Panteion University. He is member of the Brazilian Observatory of Migration and a coordinator of the Labor Migration Group at the European Labour History Network. His research focuses on immigration, transnationalism and ethnicity. His current project deals with transgenerational migration between Europe and South America. He coauthored the volume Migration and Development in Southern Europe and South America during the Postwar Period, Routledge, 2022.

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Pâris de Bollardière, Constance (The American University of Paris)

Constance Pâris de Bollardière (PhD) is the Assistant Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Confliction Prevention at The American University of Paris. Her historical research focuses on Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivors in early postwar France. She co-edited with Sharon Kangisser Cohen After the Darkness? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, forthcoming May 2023), and was the scientific editor of: Marek Edelman, Ghetto de Varsovie. Carnets retrouvés (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2022).

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Reinke, Julia (Masaryk Institute of the CAS, Prague)

Julia Reinke is a PhD candidate with a dissertation project on Refugees from the Greek Civil War in the German Democratic Republic in East-Central European contextualization at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where she was Research Associate at the Graduate School ""The GDR and the European Dictatorships after 1945” (2017-2020). Since 2019, she has been a Research Fellow in the ERC project “Unlikely refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century” (unlikely-refuge.eu), affiliated with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Before, she worked among others as Research Assistant at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig and as Student/ Teaching Assistant at various chairs at the University of Freiburg. Having studied Early Modern and Modern History in Freiburg i. Br. and Poznań, she received her Magister Artium in 2012 with a final thesis on “West-German Relations towards Poland in the Early 1980s. Reactions to Solidarność and Martial Law against the Background of the Cold War and German-Polish History” (in German, awarded the Scientific Prize of the Polish Ambassador, Munich, 2013). Her research interests include German contemporary history, the history of German-Polish relations and migration history with a special focus on refugee studies. For further details, see https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/kontakt/reinke.

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Sachdeva Jha, Shweta (Miranda House, University of Delhi)

Professor Shweta Sachdeva Jha: I completed my PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. My core interest is in women’s history and my recent publications include chapters in edited books such as The Bollywood Islamicate: Idioms, Histories and Imaginaries (Orient Blackswan, 2022), South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media (University of Wales Press, 2021) and Sultana’s Sisters: Gender, Genres, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction (Routledge, 2021). Most recently I have been working on building college women archives and my awards include the Avabai Wadia Fellowship by SNDT University of Women, Mumbai (2020) and the Tata Trusts-Partition Archive Research Grant (2021).

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Shaakerimova, Malika (Università di Bologna)        

Malika Shaakerimova: Currently I am a student of Master's program in International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage at Università di Bologna. I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Rights from the American University of Central Asia. After graduading, I have worked as a project manager at the Social Center "Equal Opportunities" in Kyrgyzstan, where I gained practical experience in day-to-day human rights work within the non-governmental sector. I also have a keen interest in the field of refugee and citizenship studies.

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Sowinski, Pawel (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland)

Professor Paweł Sowiński is a historian and a fellow at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science. His research includes: transnational media, cross-border, private entrepreneurship, bridging people and ideas in transatlantic alliance. He explores sites of change and transformative actors in the spaces of Cold War Europe. He is an author of a paper on Zofia Reinbacher's Vienna bookstore and its role in overcoming East-West divide during the Cold War.

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Tohma, Nikola (Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Dr Nikola Tohma is a post-doctoral research fellow in the ERC Consolidator Grant project Unlikely refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, affiliated with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her current research investigates various groups of refugees who settled in post-1948 communist Czechoslovakia, among them refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). Her general interests include political extremism, communism and anti-communism, populism, and conspiracy theories in Cold War and contemporary Greece. She earned her Ph.D. in 2021 from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Valbousquet, Nina (Ecole Française de Rome/ CNRS)      

Dr Nina Valbousquet is currently a research fellow of the Ecole Française de Rome and the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) working on Vatican diplomacy, Jewish refugees, and humanitarianism. Her first book has been published at CNRS editions (Paris) in spring 2020: Catholique et antisémite : Le réseau de Mgr Benigni – Rome, Europe, Etats-Unis, 1918-1934. She was the scientific curator of the exhibition at the Shoah Memorial in Paris: “The Churches Facing the Shoah” (June 2022-February 2023). She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History, NYU, and Fordham University in New York City, and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.  Her recent published articles appear in Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (2022), Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire (2022), American Jewish History (2021), Modern Italy (2018), Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2019), Archives Juives (2018), Passato e Presente (2017).

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Von Lingen, Kerstin (University of Vienna)

Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, M.A., is a historian at the University of Vienna, where she holds the Chair of Contemporary History since 2019. Previously, she worked at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg, with a research group on Allied War Crimes Trials in Asia after 1945. She is author of Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945-1960 (Kansas UP 2009) and Allen Dulles, the OSS and Nazi War Criminals: The Dynamics of Selective Prosecution (Cambridge UP 2013). In German, she published the multi-authored volumes Kriegserfahrung und nationale Identität in Europa [War experience and national identity in Europe after 1945] (Schoeningh, 2009), and co-edited with Klaus Gestwa, Zwangsarbeit als Kriegsressource in Europa und Asien [Forced labor as a resource of War: European and Asian perspectives] (Schoening 2014). Her research focuses on the history of genocide and violence, especially the Holocaust, decolonisation processes (with a focus on Asia), contemporary legal history, studies on memory, identity and apology, as well as global migration studies, and forced labour research.

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Wehner, Jessica  (Universität Osnabrück)

Jessica Wehner is a historian, since February 2022 working as a doctoral researcher at the Department of Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück and is a member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University and the Displaced-Persons-Network. Her dissertation project, "Norms, Practices and Marginality. Negotiations at the Margins of the Displacement Management of the International Refugee Organization (1946-1952)" focuses on displaced persons, specifically on persons who, due to various attributes, were considered as “fringe cases” in the global post-war refugee regime. Her project is one of three funded by the German Research Fund (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the framework of the project "Norms, Regulation and Refugee Agency: Negotiating the Migration Regimes".

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Wiederkehr, Ramon (Université de Neuchâtel)

Ramon Wiederkehr is a doctoral student and assistant at the chair for Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. He studied History and English Literature at the University of Bern and was a visiting student at Trinity College Dublin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is a member of the Conférence des Universités de Suisse occidentale (CUSO) and the transdisciplinary doctoral program “Migration and Postcoloniality Meet Switzerland” at the University of Fribourg. His doctoral thesis on Switzerland and the international refugee regime in the wake of the Second World War is supervised by Prof. Kristina Schulz in codirection with Prof. Till van Rahden.

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Wylegała, Anna  (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

Professor Anna Wylegała is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is an author of two monographs:“Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine” (2019) and “Był dwór, nie ma dworu. Reforma rolna w Polsce” [There was an estate, there is no estate any more. Agricultural reform in Poland] (2021) and co-editor of two edited volumes: “The Burden of the Past: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine” (2020), and “No Neighbors’ Lands: Vanishing Others in Postwar Europe” Currently she is a coordinator of the Polish part of the project ""24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War"", focused on the documenting of the Ukrainian experience of the current war.

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Zagula, Marta (EHESS (CERCEC))

Marta Zagula is a second year Ph.D. candidate (CNRS international doctoral contract) at the EHESS. She is writing her thesis ""Women in the Pioneer Society of Socialism: the Polish Case in Perspective"" under the supervision of Catherine Gousseff. Her research focuses on women's trajectories in the Western Borderlands of Poland.