Danielle Willard-Kyle is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers University. She earned her BA in History from Westmont College, an MA in History and Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto, and an MSt in Jewish Studies from Oxford University before coming to Rutgers.

Ayşenur Korkmaz is a PhD candidate in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Korkmaz earned her BA in History from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey and her MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Dr. Polatel received his PhD in Modern Turkish History from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey in 2017 with his dissertation “Armenians and the Land Question in the Ottoman Empire, 1870-1914.” His research interests include mass violence, state-society relations, the dispossession of Armenians and the late Ottoman Empire. Prior to receiving his PhD, he earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Ankara in 2007 and an MA in Comparative Studies in History and Society from Koç University, Istanbul in 2009.

Maël LeNoc is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Texas State University. He holds undergraduate degrees in History and Geography from Rennes 2 University in France, and a Master’s degree in Geography from Texas State University, for which he received Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in Digital Scholarship from the Conference of Southern Graduate School. LeNoc co-authored three scholarly publications, presented at a number of conferences, and received many fellowships.

Ioanida Costache is a PhD Candidate in Music at Stanford University. She earned her BA in Music (magna cum laude) from Amherst College. Her thesis on Gustav Mahler’s musical ontology in Das Lied von der Erde won the Mishkin Prize for best senior thesis on a musical topic. Her work has recently been published in Critical Romani Studies, and she is the recipient of a number of fellowships and grants, including ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant and Fullbright U.S.