Ulf Brunnbauer is the academic director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and holds the Chair of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg.

Philipp Ther is a professor of Central European history and founder of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna.

Piotr Filipkowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Andrew Hodges is a book editor and literary translator at The Narrative Craft.

Stefano Petrungaro is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Peter Wegenschimmel is the head of archives at the University of Kassel.