Notes on Contributors
Ozan Arslan
Ph.D. (2011), University Montpellier III, is lecturer of European and Near Eastern Diplomatic History at the department of Political Science and International Relations of Izmir University of Economics. He has published on diplomatic and military history of the Ottoman Empire and the Caucasus in World War I, most recently “Men, Ships and Arms to the Sultan: German Military Mission and Transfer of Personnel, Vessels, and Weapons to the Ottoman Army and Navy during World War I” in Gunpowder, Gold, and Steel. Military-Technical Cooperation during World War I (Saint Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo RKHGA, 2018).
Catherine Brégianni
PhD from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Research Director at the Modern Greek History Research Center of the Academy of Athens. Her research focuses mainly on market mechanisms, in relation to the evolution of the global monetary systems from the perspective of the history of international institutions. Last monograph: From the Greek Revolution to the forced exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey. Representations of the 1821 during the interwar period (Athens: Alfeios, in Greek, 2022). Most recent publication: “Forced Population Exchange, Spatial Conceptions and the Agency of International Institutions. League of Nations, Refugee Settlement Commission and Banking Networks in Northern Greece during the Interwar Period’’, in Catherine Brégianni, and R. Cussό eds., Shaping and Reshaping the Global Monetary Order. During the Interwar Period and Beyond (Athens: Alfeios, 2023), 25–69.
Renaud Dorlhiac
Research-associate at CETOBAC, EHESS-Paris and teaching-assistant at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP Toulouse). He has notably published on national engineering and First world war military occupations, most recently « Frontière nationale, régionale, fédérale, impériale ? L’établissement de la frontière albano-yougoslave », in Laloux, Dessberg, Palaude (ed.), Frontières en Europe depuis le Congrès de Vienne (1815) (Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2020).
Simone Egger
Ph.D. (2012), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, is assistant professor for cultural analysis at Klagenfurt University. She is an expert in urban anthropology – München wird moderner. Stadt und Atmosphäre in den langen 1960er Jahren (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013) – and works on women’s biographies (project Dorf der Frauen 2021).
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
Ph.D. (1981), University of California at Los Angeles, is a Professor of History at the Open University of Israel. Her fields of research include History and Culture of the Jews in the Muslim world, especially in Yemen, and Mizrahi Jews in Palestine and in Israel. Among her books: Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience, (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014).
Catherine Horel
Ph.D. (1993), Senior research fellow, CETOBAC-CNRS, Paris, specializes in Central European contemporary history, Habsburg Empire, Jewish, urban and military history. Among her latest publications: L’amiral Horthy, regent de Hongrie (Paris: Perrin, 2014); Histoire de la nation hongroise (Paris: Tallandier, 2021), Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire. Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters 1880–1914 (forthcoming at CEU Press, 2023).
George Kalpadakis
Ph.D. (2009), is a Senior Researcher in Foreign Policy at the Modern Greek History Research Center of the Academy of Athens (KEINE). In 2023–2024 he will be a Lewis-Gibson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University (2021-2022) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2015–2017). He has worked on Southeast European politics, policy and institution-building. His latest publications include The Cyprus conflict, 1954–1974 (Athens: Papazissis 2021) and The Balkan confederation of Ioannis Kapodistrias (Athens: SOV 2023).
Denis Ljuljanović
Ph.D. (2021), Justus-Liebig University of Giessen/Germany, and Marmara University/Turkey. His research explores social and cultural history in the Ottoman Empire, migrations, micropolitics and microhistory, transnational and entangled history. In his research, he applies a bottom-up perspective of ordinary life in order to bring the greater visibility and understanding of the actors who have been overlooked and neglected in the past. He is currently working on his upcoming manuscript Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire: State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878–1912).
Nicole Immig
Ph.D. (2013), is Professor of South-Eastern European History at Justus-Liebig University of Giessen/Germany. Her publications deal with (hi)stories of migrations, the visual culture of South-Eastern Europe, history of media and the periodical press, the Balkan Front in World War One and labor migration in Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
Stefan Rohdewald
Ph.D. (2004), University of Zurich, is Professor for Eastern and South Eastern European History at the University of Leipzig. He has published on Russian/ Polish-Lithuanian urban history and heads a priority programme financed by the German Research Foundation on Transottoman mobility dynamics. His most recent book: Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).
Bettina Severin-Barboutie
Ph.D. (2004), Professor of Contemporary History at University Clermont Auvergne and associated member of the research lab “Arts, civilisation, histoire de l’Europe” at the University of Strasbourg, specializes in contemporary history. Among her latest publications: Migration als Bewegung am Beispiel der Städte Stuttgart und Lyon nach 1945 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), Représentation et mémoire de la migration/Repräsentation und Erinnerung der Migration, ed. with Dirk Rupnow et al. (Innsbruck: IUP, 2021).
Sarah Shields
Ph.D. (1986), University of Chicago, is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published on the history of the late Ottoman and interwar Middle East, most recently Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).