Cristina Florea’s research revolves around nationalism, empire, statehood, war, and regime change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

Michael Fontaine is a Latinist whose latest work is on the effective use of humor in diplomacy. His research ranges across Latin literature, classical Roman and Greek society, and the Renaissance.

Filip Galić studies the evolving relationship between capitalist ideology post empire — as read through transnational circuits of capital, expertise, and architectural production — and the articulations of national consciousness and sovereignty in post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographies throughout t

Sergio García Magariño holds a PhD in sociology with an international mention and is a specialist in education and social development.

Jennifer Germann has published widely on art and material culture and women, gender, and race in the eighteenth century.

Maria Goula is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on coastal tourism, especially coastal dynamics and the interpretation and reinvention of leisure patterns.

Spencer Hadley (he/him/his) is a PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies.

Gail Holst-Warhaft is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Near Eastern Studies. Her research interests include translation, modern Greek literature and music, Greek literature from antiquity to the present, water, and culture.

Rachel Horner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in music and sound studies at Cornell University. She holds an MA in musicology and a BM in vocal music education and Spanish from Rutgers University.

Elena Iankova's research interests include business, government, and civil society relations. Her book Eastern European Capitalism in the Making (Cambridge University Press, 2002) traces the metamorphosis of this relationship in the post-communist region after the fall of communism.