Issue 3 | Contributors

Meglena Antonova is the Director of Greenpeace Bulgaria. She has worked in various roles in the organization for nearly ten years. Previously, she was an assistant and analyst at the Bulgarian Wind Energy Association. She graduated in Law from the University of Applied Sciences in The Hague, the Netherlands, and the University of Oslo, Norway.

Dominic Boyer directs the Social Design Lab at Rice University where he also serves on the Board of Governors of the Rice Sustainability Institute. As one of the founders of the field of Energy Humanities, he has been writing on energy politics and energy transition for many years. The author of nine books and volumes and more than 100 research articles, Boyer’s latest book is No More Fossils (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), an analysis of the fossil gerontocracy that seeks to hold us in its ecocidal grasp and the coming transition from petroculture to electroculture. He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.

Hélène B. Ducros (JD, PhD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) is a human geographer focused on the reinvention of territories through heritage-making. She has published in various venues, including the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Global Environmental Politics, Island Studies Journal, Explorations in Place Attachment, the Handbook of Place, and International Handbook of Walking. She co-edited Decentering European Studies: Perspectives on Europe from its Beyond (UNESP – World Society Foundation, 2025) and Justice in Climate Action Planning (Springer, 2022). She is the founder and editor of GlobalEurope.

Natalia Gozak is the Director of Greenpeace Ukraine. She studied ecology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and went on to co-found several well-known environmental organizations in Ukraine. She has worked for the United Nations Development Program, Ecoaclub Green Wave, WWF Ukraine, Ecoaction, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). While her family is defending Ukraine, she dedicates herself  to stopping the destruction of nature and ensuring that future generations of Ukrainians can live on a healthy planet.

Elizabeth B. Jones is a retired professor of German and European history, specializing in gender, rural, and environmental history. She now lives in the US state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, and is involved in forest restoration and community service.

Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager is Professor at Colorado State University. She specializes in critical cultural communication and international studies. She is Director & Leader of Education Abroad programs in Italy and Austria and Program Director of ACT Human Rights Film Festival.

Nicholas Ostrum is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University and holds a PhD from Stony Brook University. He has published research and reviews in various fora, including the International History Review, Central European History, Energy Humanities, EuropeNow, Journal of World History, and edited volumes on global Germany. His current project analyzes West Germany’s petroleum, development, and political relations with Syria and Libya from the 1950s through the 1973/4 Oil Crisis.

John Pickles is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and International Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. His research focuses on global value changes, regional economic development, and social theory. He has carried out research in Bulgaria since 1989 and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Victor Taki is a historian of Russia and Eastern Europe living in Canada. Over the past two decades, he has taught at Carleton University, University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, the King’s University, and Concordia University of Edmonton. He is the author of Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2016), Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834 (CEU Press, 2021), and Russia’s Turkish Wars: The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2024).

Suzana Vuljevic is a writer, translator, and historian currently teaching in the Program in Albanian and Southeast European Studies at DePaul University. She holds a PhD in History and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and her most recent work, “Order Amid Chaos: The Crisis of Spirit and a Panoply of Pan-Balkan Solutions in Interwar Europe,” was published in Never-Ending Story? Mapping Crisis Discourses in East-Central Europe, 1918-2020 (New York: Routledge, 2024). Her translations from the Serbo-Croatian have been published in Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) and in a compendium of primary sources, Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century (CEU Press, 2024). Her current book project focuses on transnational intellectual networks that coalesced around interwar pan-Balkan ideas and discourses of European unity.

Sarah Wolff is Professor of International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on global international relations, gender, migration, and religion in international relations, the European Union, and North Africa. She is on the editorial board of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her book published by Michigan University Press on Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy received the 2023 best book award from the European Union Studies Association. She works with European governments on migration and rescue at sea.

Art Exhibition | Literary Excerpts

Jefferson Chase is the translator of some 40 books from German, including works by Thomas Mann, Volker Ullrich, and Wolfgang Schivelbusch. He lives in Berlin.

Marion Detjen is a historian at Bard College Berlin, where she teaches migration history and is director of the Program for International Education and Social Change, a scholarship program for displaced students. She lives in Berlin.

Ariana Harwicz (b. 1977, Argentina) is a fiercely independent writer and thinker who studied comparative literature at the Sorbonne. The author of Die, My Love, Feebleminded, and Precious, Harwicz has been translated into more than 20 languages, and Die, My Love was longlisted for the Booker International Prize.

Dominique Lutringer is a French visual artist based in Japan. Born in Strasbourg, France, with both French and German origins, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence. In his early thirties, his artistic journey took a decisive turn when he moved to Japan, inspired by Yukio Mishima’s The Golden Pavilion and a fascination with Japanese culture that began in his adolescence. His practice explores repetition, layering, and transparency through painting and ceramics, drawing on architectural structures, modernist principles, and daily life in Japan. He is exhibited internationally in the United States, Singapore, France, and Japan, and currently works between Tokyo, Osaka, and France, where he develops exhibitions, public projects, and commissioned works. His work is featured in prestigious hotels and resorts worldwide, including the Ritz-Carlton, Westin, and Four Seasons, among others. Alongside his studio practice, he maintains a long-term commitment to transmission, developing art workshops for young audiences that encourage curiosity, hands-on making, and sustained attention in an increasingly digital environment. More about his work can be found here.

Jessie Mendez Sayer is a British/Venezuelan translator who has been living and working in Mexico City since 2017. Her translations include The Untameable by Guillermo Arriaga and The Last Days of El Comandante by Alberto Barrera Tyszka.

Helen Wolff (1906-1994) was born in Macedonia to a German father and Austro-Hungarian mother. At twenty-one, she went to Munich to apprentice at Kurt Wolff Verlag, now remembered as Kafka’s original publisher. She began an affair with Kurt Wolff, whom she would go on to marry. The couple fled Nazi Germany first for France and eventually for the United States, where they arrived almost penniless in 1941. The Wolffs founded a new imprint of Pantheon Books there in 1942. Helen, a gifted linguist who could read in four European languages, published a wide range of significant works by writers including Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Georges Simenon, and Boris Pasternak. She wrote fiction and plays but always kept her own writing private. Background for Love was first published in Germany in 2020 to wide acclaim.

Tristram Wolff writes and teaches English and comparative literature at Northwestern University.