Issue 5 | Contributors

Dino Bozonelos earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs at California State University, San Marcos and Professor of Political Science at Victor Valley College. He co-edited The Politics of Religious Tourism (CAB International), and his research focuses on global issue including geopolitics, religious tourism and pilgrimage, and the intersection of religion and politics.

Mark Bruno is a cybersecurity specialist and former U.S. Army combat medic and public affairs representative. He holds a master of science in cybersecurity and is currently completing a master of arts in international relations and security studies at Webster University Leiden. His work explores the intersection of emerging technologies and global conflict, with his recent research critically examining growing surveillance states. He also brings a background in digital communications, with experience in journalism, media production, and strategic communication.

Moritz Föllmer teaches modern history at the University of Amsterdam. He has widely written on Weimar and Nazi Germany, European urban history, and the history of individuality.

Ada Freaney is a research officer at Airfield Estate, a teaching farm in Dublin, Ireland.

Sahin Göksu is a political scientist specializing in Turkish foreign policy, energy and environmental policy, and minority policy. He obtained his PhD in 2025 from Andrássy University Budapest with a dissertation entitled Die Politik der Türkei gegenüber den turksprachigen Minderheiten Südosteuropas [Turkey’s policy toward the Turkic-speaking minorities of Southeast Europe].

Elizabeth B. Jones retired in 2019 from Colorado State University and now lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Her scholarship focused on rural Germany, gender, internal colonization, and the environment and includes articles published in Central European History, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, German History, Agricultural History, and Continuity and Change, among others. Her book, Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871-1933, appeared in 2009. In 2021, she began a large oak savanna and meadow restoration project in Corvallis. She joined the research editorial board of Global Europe: A Journal Placing Europe in the World, in 2025. 

Paul O’Keeffe, PhD, is Head of Education and Research at Airfield Estate in Dublin, Ireland, and has a background in education for sustainable development.

Edina Paleviq is a political scientist whose research focuses on the intersection of democratization, civil society, and European integration. Her research explores the interplay between grassroots mobilization and institutional Europeanization. By bridging democratic theory with the complexities of digital society, her work offers critical insights into the evolving dynamics of civic participation and nationalism in contemporary Europe.

Martina Plantak is a political scientist whose research focuses on nationalism, identity formation, and the transformation of social and political dynamics in the digital age. Her work examines how national and cultural identities are constructed, communicated, and reshaped through media, digital technologies, and emerging forms of online interaction.

Jessica Storey-Nagy, PhD, is a Research Associate and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Byrnes Institute, respectively, at Indiana University Bloomington. A political and linguistic anthropologist, she studies political discourse in Hungary, Eastern Europe, and the European Union. Broadly, she is interested in multimodal political communication, disinformation, semiotics, nationalism, and how political talk affects processes of identification and belonging. Her current book manuscript is titled Political Realities, Personal Truths: Multiplicities of Meaning in Orbán Era Hungary.

Daniel Vecchio holds a PhD in Philosophy from Marquette University and an MA in Philosophy from Boston College. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Victor Valley College, in Victorville, California. His primary area of research is in the philosophy of religion, with an emphasis on Classical Theism.

Art Exhibition | Literary Excerpts

Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) is the undisputed master of modern Icelandic fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.” His body of work includes novels, essays, poems, plays, stories, and memoirs: more than sixty books in all. His works available in English include Independent People, The Fish Can Sing, World Light, Under the Glacier, Iceland’s Bell, and Paradise Reclaimed.

NeSpoon is a visual artist working at the intersection of urban art, ceramics, painting, and site-specific installation. She states that she was born in 2009 – the year she placed her first work in public space. Since then, her works have appeared in more than 100 cities in over 40 countries on five continents, both in public space and in galleries and museum collections. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her works can be seen both on the streets and in private and institutional collections, including the Louvre Museum in Lens, the Lace Museum in Calais, and the Museum of Fine Arts and Lace in Alençon. Her works have also been presented in the Polish Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, at the European Parliament in Brussels, European Capital of Culture 2016 Wrocław, (Poland), or the UK City of Culture Bradford 2025.

Yasmina Reza is a novelist and playwright whose prodigious work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Her plays include Conversations after a Burial, The Passage of Winter, The Unexpected Man, Art, Life x 3, A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, and Bella Figura, many of which were multi-award-winning international successes. Art was the first non-English-language play to win the American Tony Award. God of Carnage, which also won a Tony Award, was adapted for film in 2012 by Roman Polanski. Her novels include Babylon, which won the Prix Renaudot and was shortlisted for the Prix Concourt, Hammerklavier, Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Happy Are the Happy, and Anne-Marie the Beauty. She lives in Paris.

Philip Roughton has translated the work of Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir and many others. He has twice been awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for his rendering of Laxness’s work, in 2001 for Iceland’s Bell  and again in 2015 for Wayward Heroes . He also received the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s The Heart of Man. He lives in Iceland.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including of books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers; queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert; and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he was a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and recipient of a PEN/Heim translation grant and the French Voices Grand Prize. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.