Andreja Mesarič is a post-doctoral researcher at Charles University in Prague, where she is conducting research on Muslims in communist Yugoslavia as part of a multi-sited project on communist gender policies towards Muslim minorities in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This work builds on her previous research about pious women's experiences of Islamic revival in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina conducted as part of a PhD at the University of Ljubljana. Her other research interests include gender and migration, and postcolonial approaches to central and eastern Europe.
Paul Morton received a PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media at the University of Washington in 2018 and is currently a lecturer in the university's Department of English. He has an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and a BA in English from Columbia University. He is currently at work on a manuscript based on his dissertation on the Zagreb School, as well as a study of Jules Feiffer.
Eleonora Narvselius is an ethnologist affiliated with the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University. She holds a PhD in Ethnology from Kyiv University (Ukraine) and a PhD in Ethnic Studies and Nationalism from Linköping University (Sweden). She is the author of Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L΄viv: Narratives, Identity and Power (Lexington, 2012) and Tragic Past, Agreeable Heritage: Post-Soviet Intellectual Discussions on the Polish Legacy in Western Ukraine (Carl Beck Papers no. 2403, 2015). Her recent research deals with memory studies, heritage studies, urban studies, and studies of ethnicity and nationalism.
Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book is This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell, 2019). She is Editor of the online public history website, Not Even Past, and co-host of the podcast 15 Minute History. Her current project is a part-digital, part-textual study called Global Eisenstein: Immersion in Nature, Art, and the World.
Igor Pietraszewski is Assistant Professor at Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, Poland. He specializes on sociology of culture, music and memory. His books include Jazz in Poland: Improvised Freedom (Peter Lang, 2014) and City and Power–Postmodern Urban Spaces in Contemporary Poland (Peter Lang, 2018). He has contributed to Whose Memory? Which Future?, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, ed. (2016); Disputed Memory, T.S. Andersen and B. Tornquist-Plewa, eds. (2016); and Jazz and Totalitarianism, Bruce Johnson, ed. (2017).
Daniel Schwartz is Assistant Professor in Russian and German cinema at McGill University. His research focuses on the intersection of urban studies, Russian and German cinema, and sound studies. Currently, he is at work on a book project, City Symphonies 1913–1931: Sound, Politics, and the Avant-Garde, which explores the relationship between audial practices and the composition of political communities in the work of figures like Luigi Russolo, Arsenii Avraamov, Walter Ruttmann, and Dziga Vertov.
Kaitlyn Tucker Sorenson is currently a postdoctoral Humanities Teaching Fellow in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, from which she received her PhD in 2018. Her research centers upon the intellectual and cultural history of late socialism in central and southeastern Europe.
Mustafa Tuna is Associate Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Departments of Slavic & Eurasian Studies and History at Duke University. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of central Eurasia, especially Russia's Volga-Ural region, Central Asia, and modern Turkey, since the early-nineteenth century. He is the author of Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788–1917 (Cambridge, 2015).
