Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park
I am a Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park), President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (April 2006–March 2007), and since April 2007, Chairman of the Presidential Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Roman...
Assistant Professor in International History at the University of Florence, Italy
Alberto Tonini is an assistant professor in International History at the University of Florence, Italy. He is a member of the Executive Board of SeSaMO, the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies. He has also taught at the Air Force Military Academy in Florence and at the University of Urbino. He received his Ph.D. in International History at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University...
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
A professor with expertise in the Balkans and Turkey, Dr. Frances Trix has been working in Turkey since the 1970s, and in Kosovo since the late 1980s. Fluent in Turkish, Albanian, and colloquial Arabic, Dr. Trix has specialized in Muslim communities: Muslim immigrant communities in North America, Muslims in Kosovo and Macedonia, and Balkan Muslim immigrants in Turkey. Frances lived in Kosovo when...
Lecturer, Faculty of Orthodox Theology-University of Bucharest;
Fellow, Institut für Byzanzforschung – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Ionuţ-Alexandru Tudorie is a lecturer at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology – University of Bucharest, teaching Church History and fellow of Institut für Byzanzforschung – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna). He has a PhD in Theology at the University of Bucharest. Also, he is editor of the periodical Studii Teologice. His most recent publications are: A.A. Vasiliev...
Research Associate, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Turai completed her PhD at Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest. Previously she earned a Master`s in Hungarian Social- and Ethno-Linguistic Studies. She received her Bachelor`s degree in Ethnography, Folklore and Anthropological Studies, and Hungarian Literary and Linguistic Studies. She has published many articles and chapters in books. Her main results were published in 2 books: Öreg embe...