Issue 1 | Contributors
Manuela Achilles is Professor of German and History at the University of Virginia. Her research centers on Weimar democracy, Nazi Germany, and sustainability in transatlantic perspective. Her monograph Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism in Weimar Germany is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Peter Debaere is an economist and the Tipton Snavely Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Administration. His research on globalization and the economics of water has received funding from National Science Foundation and appears in top general interest and field journals.
Hélène B. Ducros holds a Juris Doctor and PhD in geography from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is co-editor of Justice in Climate Action Planning (Springer, 2022) and Decentering European Studies: Perspectives on Europe from its Beyond (UNESP, 2025). She is the creator and editor of GlobalEurope Journal.
Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz is a PhD candidate at Harvard University. She is currently working on a dissertation titled “The Development of the Informer Network of the NKVD-NKGB-MGB-KGB: Agent Work as Practice and Experience, 1934-1965” on the social and institutional history of informing to the Soviet political police.
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.
Bee Lehman is a literatures and digital humanities librarian at UC Berkeley, where they specialize in information literacy. They earned their MLIS from Simmons University in 2007 and PhD in history from UNC at Chapel Hill in 2017. Their research focuses on European migration, digital humanities, and travel literature.
Andrew Martino is Dean of the Clarke Honors College at Salisbury University, where he is also Professor of English. He has published on contemporary world literature and is a regular reviewer for World Literature Today and Reading in Translation Online.
Edina Paleviq, PhD, is a political scientist specializing in democratization processes and the role of civil society in the EU accession process. Her research explores how bottom-up initiatives strengthen democracy, the rule of law, and European integration.
Sofia Sydorenko is Chairwoman and Co-founder of Zero Waste Alliance Ukraine. She studied global studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University and received a Master’s in geography – tourism studies from Lviv National University and a Master’s in non-profit management from the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Metehan Tekinırk is a political scientist who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University. His research centers on democratic erosion and resilience, populism, and nationalism, and he has published in academic outlets such as the German Journal of Comparative Politics, Populism, and the Research Handbook on Nationalism. He received his MA and PhD degrees from Boston University and is originally from Istanbul.
Tom van Nuenen (PhD, Tilburg University) is a lecturer in advanced computing and senior data scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work bridges computational social science, AI ethics, and digital culture, with a focus on algorithmic bias and the use of computational methods for cultural analysis. He is the author of Traveling Through Video Games (Routledge, 2023) and Scripted Journeys (De Gruyter, 2021) and has published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM CSCW, and Tourist Studies.
Craig Willis is a researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues and completed his PhD in 2024 at the Europa-Universität Flensburg with a dissertation titled “Purpose and Challenges of Minority Language Media.” His research focuses broadly on minority language communities in the context of media but also in activism, civil society, and football. He is the Action Chair of the Language Plurality in Europe’s Changing Media Sphere (PLURILINGMEDIA)[1] COST Action, which will run until 2028.
Art Exhibition | Literary Excerpts
Jeffrey Diteman is a literary scholar and translator working in French, Spanish, and English. He has translated the writing of Pablo Martín Sánchez, Raymond Queneau, and Amalialú Posso Figueroa, and regularly translates journalism and children’s literature. His academic research focuses on depictions of cross-cultural influence in narratives of extended kinship from Latin America.
Lieven Engelen is a photographer living in the Netherlands whose work centers on landscape and portrait photography. While he takes inspiration from the past, his approach is also highly personal and situated in the present, also revealing a sense of identity and being. More of his work may be found here.
Aqiil M. Gopee is a Mauritian writer and poet with degrees in religion from Amherst College and Harvard, where he also trained in archaeology. He has published numerous short stories and poems in Mauritius, France, and the US, having won the 1st prize of prestigious Prix du Jeune Écrivain in 2023 for his short-story “Insectarium,” published by Buchet-Chastel (Paris). He reads classical Arabic, Attic Greek, Akkadian, and Egyptian, and along with a first novel, he is currently working on a literary translation of the Qur’ān.
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Her work includes Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Kappa (New Directions, 2023), Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome (FSG, 2025), Natsuo Kirino’s Swallows (Knopf, 2025) and Yoko Tawada’s Exophony (New Directions, 2025), among others. Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she now lives in New York City.
Louis Timagène Houat (1809-1883) was a French writer and physician. Originally from Bourbon Island, now known as La Réunion, he was the author of the first novel in Réunionese literature, Les Marrons, which he published in Paris in 1844.
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books—stories, novels, poems, plays, essays—in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, as well her novels The Naked Eye, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Emissary, Scattered All over the Earth, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Suggested in the Stars, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is Archipelago of the Sun, the final novel in her Scattered trilogy.