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Alexandros Balasis is a PhD candidate in History at York University, Toronto. He is interested in modern Greek history, having studied issues of modernity and nationalism. His current research centers around transoceanic migration, focusing on migrants' agency and their interactions with migration policies.

Dušan I. Bjelić is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His research interests include Balkan studies with an emphasis on the Balkans' relation to Europe in light of the Balkans' history of racial capitalism. He is the co-editor, with Obrad Savić, of Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (MIT Press, 2003); the author of Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry (Routledge, 2011) and Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis (Palgrave, 2017); and the editor of Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe (Routledge, 2019).

Karen Emmerich is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she currently directs the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. She is also a translator of Greek poetry, prose, and drama. She is the author of Literary Translation and the Making of Originals (2017) and has translated books by Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo, Yannis Ritsos, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Christos Ikonomou, Amanda Michalopoulou, and others.

Sofia Fragoulopoulou holds two postgraduate degrees, one in the domain of cultural management (Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, Panteion University) and one in the domain of cultural anthropology (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University). She also holds a PhD in the History of Museums and Collections from the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is working as an archaeologist in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Her research interests include the interconnections between material culture and cultural memory and the history of women in the field of archaeology.

Thomas W. Gallant is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at the University of California San Diego. He has published extensively on modern Greek social and economic history and historical archaeology.

Theodoros Kouros is Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. His primary research interests include state and statecraft, bureaucracy, and resistance tactics and strategies.

Tomasz Lidzbarski is a PhD candidate in Culture and Religion Studies at the University of Gdansk, where he also works as a teaching and research assistant in the Institute of Cultural Research. His current scholarly interests include modern Polish migration to Greece, with a special focus on the integration of Poles throughout the Ionian Islands.

Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research has focused on Greek and Balkan cinema, with particular emphasis on screen and media industries. She is the author of The Greek Film Musical (2006), and co-editor of Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011) and Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits (2020). Between 2015 and 2022 she was the principal editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. She has published multiple articles and chapters on issues related to film financing, co-productions, (digital) distribution, and film festivals, among other subjects.

Mogens Pelt, PhD et DPhil, is Associate Professor in International History at the Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen and a former director of the Danish Institute in Athens. He is currently leading the research project "The Greek Revolution and European Republicanism, 1815–1830" (Independent Research Fund Denmark) and is co-director, with Professor Catharina Raudvere, of the "Transformation of South-East Europe and the Ottoman Heritage" research group at the Many Roads in Modernity research center at the University of Copenhagen (Carlsberg Foundation). In 2008–2009 he was a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University. In 2007–2008 he was attached to the commission established by the Danish Parliament to investigate the Danish Security Intelligence Service.

Jay K. Rosengard, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), has fifty years of international experience designing, implementing, and evaluating development policies in public finance and fiscal strategy; tax and budget reform; municipal finance and management; intergovernmental fiscal relations; banking and financial institutions development; financial inclusion...