Ljiljana Biukovic is an international law scholar whose research focuses on trade and investment issues of international economic integration and on the impact of international trade law on national regulatory governance. Alexia Bloch is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on mobility and immobility, with particular emphasis on gender, families, and citizenship in contemporary Eurasia. Anna Casas Aguilar is a literary and cultural studies scholar, and her research explores the intimate connections between gender, nationalism, and regionalism in modern Spanish and Catalan literature and visual culture. Antje Ellermann’s research focuses on the politics of migration and citizenship. Kyle Frackman is a film and literature scholar whose research focuses primarily on representations of gender and sexuality in German and Scandinavian culture and history. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire works on French and Francophone literatures from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the spatial invention and representation of post-conflict and post-industrial environments. Eagle Glassheim is a historian whose current research focuses on the environmental history of Eastern and Central Europe. Sima Godfrey is a specialist in 19th-century French literature and cultural history. David Gramling (he/they) is the Academic Head of the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies. Prof. Gramling’s research explores linguistics, intersectionality, and cultural communications in Europe. Gramling is a proud member of the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Researching Multilingually at Borders, the American Literary Translators Association, and is the Translations section editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press). Markus Hallensleben’s field is Germanic Studies and his current research focuses on Transitional Spaces in Post-Migration German-Language Literatures. Alan Jacobs works on comparative public policy and political economy of advanced industrialized democracies and on qualitative and mixed-method methodology. Merje Kuus is a political geographer whose work concentrates on geopolitics and policy processes, in particular the production of expert knowledge, in national and transnational institutions. Jason Lieblang is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies specializing in German Studies. He works at the intersection of crisis, culture, and masculinities, especially in Germanic contexts. Ervin Malakaj researches in film and literary history with a broad interest in German media studies, queer theory, narrative theory, and critical pedagogy. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom’s research focuses on transnational activism and NGO politics, particularly involving Russian civil society. Philip Resnick’s research has focused on majority and minority nationalities in plurinational states. Allen Sens is engaged in research on international security, teaching and learning, and knowledge mobilization. Yves Tiberghien is a comparative political economist with interest in both European and Asian political economy, as well as a particular interest in French politics. His research focuses on comparative economic policies in the context of globalization, climate politics, and the changing framework of global governance. Heidi Tworek is a historian whose research focuses on media, communications, and international organizations. Gaoheng Zhang is a Migration, Media, and Cultural Studies scholar working in the Italian and international contexts.
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