Notes on Contributors
Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk
is Deputy Head of the Academic Department of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and a researcher at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Among his publications are A New Europe, 1918–23: Instability, Innovation, Recovery, Routledge (ed. with Jay Winter, forthcoming).
Florian Groß
is PhD researcher in American Studies at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). He is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Authenticity: Medial Constructions of the Real (2012) and has published articles on the television series 30 Rock, Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the podcast The Bowery Boys: New York City History, and the High Line Park as well as world fairs in New York.
Claire Hendren
is Lecturer in Art History at Texas State University. Her recent publications include “French Impressionism in the United States’ Greater Midwest: The 1907–1908 Traveling Exhibition”, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and “Impressionist Art in Private Clubs: The Case Study of the Union League Club (1886–1902)” in Transatlantica.
Joep Leerssen
is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and coordinator of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (www.spinnet.eu). Among his books are National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History (3rd ed. 2018) and the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (2018, ernie.uva.nl).
Cosmin Minea
is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich. He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2020, where he was also a teaching assistant and visiting lecturer. His PhD thesis is entitled Old Buildings for Modern Times: The Rise of Architectural Monuments as Symbols of The State in Late 19th-Century Romania. This research has been funded through a PhD scholarship from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Miriam Oesterreich
is Professor in Art History, Design Theory and Gender Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is the author of Bilder konsumieren. Inszenierungen ‘exotischer’ Körper in früher Bildwerbung, 1880–1914 (2018); her current second book project investigates Mexican Indigenism between ideas of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. She is co-editor of the RIHA Journal special issue Revisioning World’s Fairs (forthcoming 2021).
Taka Oshikiri
is Lecturer in History at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica). She is the author of Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period (2018) and “The Shogun’s Tea Jar: Material Culture, Ritual and Political Authority in Early-Modern Japan” (2016).
Anastasia Remes
is PhD researcher at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Her research is concerned with the cultural politics of the European Union, with a focus on their expression in world fairs since the 1950s. Publications include “«A Multifaceted Diamond» out of Steel: Exhibiting the European Communities at Expo 67” (2019) and “Memory, Identity and the Supranational Museum: The House of European History” (2017).
Christina Romlid
is Senior Lecturer in History at Dalarna University (Sweden) and author of “Visualizing Sweden at the 1937 World Fair in Paris,” in Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (ed. Holger Weiss, 2020).
Robert W. Rydell
is Emeritus Professor of History and American Studies at Montana State University (USA). Beginning with All the World’s A Fair (1984), he has published extensively about the history of world fairs, especially about their centrality for embedding racism and imperialism into the political cultures of modern nation-states. Along with Rob Kroes, he organized a major research project at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study on the reception of American mass culture in Europe. He also served as guest curator for an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC about world fairs and American modernism and edited a book, Designing Tomorrow (2010) based on that exhibition.
Sven Schuster
is Professor of History at the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), author of Die Inszenierung der Nation: Das Kaiserreich Brasilien im Zeitalter der Weltausstellungen (2015), co-editor (with Óscar Daniel Hernández Quiñones) of Imaginando América Latina. Historia y cultura visual, siglos XIX-XXI (2017) as well as coordinator (with Christiane Hoth) of the special issue Exposiciones y cultura visual en América Latina (Iberoamericana 21.77, 2021).
Eric Storm
is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Leiden University (Netherlands), author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 and co-editor (with Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas) of Regionalism and Modern Europe: Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day (2018) and (with Stefan Berger) of Writing the History of Nationalism (2019).
Anthony Swift
is Visiting Fellow in the History Department, University of Essex (UK), where he was a researcher and senior lecturer in history from 1995 to 2015. Dr Swift is the author of Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia (2002) and has published numerous scholarly articles on subjects including Russian theatre censorship, popular culture, and world fairs.
Jonathan Voges
is post-doctoral researcher at the Department of History, University of Hannover (Germany), author of “Selbst ist der Mann”. Do-it-yourself und Heimwerken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2017) and of “Internationale Experten in eigener Sache? Der Völkerbund und die Organisation der geistigen Zusammenarbeit in der Zwischenkriegszeit” (in Externe Experten in Politik und Wirtschaft, ed. F. Selgert. 2020).