
Evren Altinkas in an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Guelph. He obtained his doctoral degree from Dokuz Eylul University in 2011 based on his dissertation comparing the development of the concept of intellectuals in Europe and in Turkey. Altinkas has written several articles in academic journals and published book chapters. His research areas include the History of the Middle East, Turkish Politics, Turkish History, International Organizations, Comparative History, International Law, the Cyprus problem and Intellectual History.

Roy Bar Sadeh is a postdoctoral fellow in the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale University Law School. A global historian of South Asia and the Middle East, his research moves across the British, Ottoman, and Russian Empires and their successor states to understand how Muslims across the Indian subcontinent and the Mashriq experienced and shaped local and global debates about sovereignty, minority status, and management of religious difference. Roy received his PhD in history from Columbia University and he is currently working on his first monograph, Muslims and the Minority Question: A Global History, 1856-1947. This book project is a global intellectual history of the concept of a minority and its role in connecting Muslim thinkers throughout South and West Asia and Eurasia. Roy’s previous peer-reviewed research has been published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Nadezhda Beliakova is currently a research fellow as a scholar at risk at the University of Bielefeld and at the Cluster “Religion und Politik” at WWU in Münster. She received her PhD in History from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She was a Senior Scientific Fellow at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences. Her main research fields are social history of Christian communities in the USSR, religious minorities and migration, religion and communication during the Cold War, and minority and charity.

Barbara Henning is a historian with a focus on late-Ottoman and early Turkish-Republican settings. She holds a PhD in Turkish Studies from Bamberg University and her research interests include Ottoman-Kurdish history, post-Ottoman transfrmations, memory studies, (post-)imperial biographies and the history of knowledge. In her current book project, she traces the history of the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in Ottoman and post-Ottoman contexts and asks about perceptions of difference, social hierarchies in transition and the translation of status. She is a member of the DFG Research Network Post-Ottoman Transformations and an associated member of the DFG Research Priority Program Transottomanica. Since 2020, she holds the chair for the History of the Islamic Mediterranean at Mainz University and in April 2023 she joined the DFG Research Training Group Byzantium and Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War as a core faculty member.

Rustam Khan is a graduate student in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research weaves histories of postcolonial Europe, race and migration, and media technologies together. He studies how “migrant” communities in Belgium create and mobilize visual and sound technologies to narrate histories of (post)colonialism and segregation in public and urban environments.
Jan Lambertz is a historian and editor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her recent publications include “Early Post-war Holocaust Knowledge and the Search for Europe’s Jews” (Patterns of Prejudice, 2019); “The Urn and the Swastika: Recording Death in the Nazi Concentration Camp System” (German History, 2020); “Going Underground: Burial, Restitution, and Jewish Space in Postwar Germany” (Medaon, 2021); and (coeditor) More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos (Wayne State University Press, 2022).

Charis Marantzidou is a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European History at Columbia University. Her research centers on refugees from Russia and the Soviet Union in the Balkans and Eastern Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

Nour A. Munawar is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He holds a PhD Degree in archaeology & heritage studies from the University of Amsterdam UvA (Netherlands). Before joining the Doha Institute, he held a position at Brown University, USA, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and he also worked at UCL-Qatar in Education City, Doha, as Associate Research Fellow. Munawar participated in several archaeological excavations in Qatar, Syria, Poland, and Italy. Munawar has published several articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in critical heritage studies and archaeology. Munawar is a UNESCO expert on the Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage project and member of several international organizations, such as the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACSH).

Martin Nekola, Ph.D. received his doctorate in political science at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His research is focused on non-democratic regimes, the era of Communism, Czech communities abroad and the East-European anti-communist exiles in the USA during the Cold War. From time to time he participates in the election observation missions organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He is the member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). He is the author of numerous articles and books and currently acts as coordinator for the Czechoslovak Talks Project (www.czechoslovaktalks.com/en).

Phi Nguyen is a PhD candidate in the joint program between the Lab of Urbanism, EDAR, EPFL, and the Department of Interior Architecture, HEAD-Genève. She holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts (valedictorian, summa cum laude) from Berea College, USA. Phi is a fellow within the research project Site and Space in Southeast Asia, organized by the University of Sydney and supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories Initiative (2018-2022). Together with an international team, she received the Graham Foundation grant to coordinate an exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts on Huế City’s local architectural heritage (2018-2019). Phi has experiences working in both art/ design practice. She co-founded research/ design studio atelier NgNg based in Saigon, Vietnam, whose works have been published internationally.

Benjamin Tromly teaches Russian, East European and Modern European history at University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev (Cambridge University Press, 2014), as well as articles in Cold War History, Contemporary European History, Europe-Asia Studies, European History Quarterly, History and Memory, Intelligence & National Security, Journal of Cold War Studies, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Nationalities Papers: the Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, and Russian Review. He is working on a study of the Vlasov Movement in history and memory.

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.

Ani Yeremyan received her doctorate degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in October 2022. She was granted a fellowship by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to pursue both M.Phil and Ph.D. at JNU. Her thesis is on the Armenian Diasporic Community in India. Particularly, she worked on the complex diasporic identity through time and space. Yeremyan’s research interests are diaspora studies, diaspora identity, forced migration, and digital diasporas.