June 2020

25/06/2020

Sílvia Correia, PhD

Sílvia teaches, supervises and researched the Contemporary History of Portugal and Europe, focusing on the conflicts of the twentieth century and their cultural effects from a comparative and transnational perspective. She is engaged in history & memory, cultural memory, trauma and nostalgia debates and on critical and postcolonial theories of violence. Since 2013, she has […]

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25/06/2020

Matthew Kovac, MSc

Matthew is an incoming History PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focuses on the Irish republican movement, decolonization, and the global Cold War. He has also published on paramilitary violence after the First World War, including a chapter in Communication and the First World War (Routledge, 2020) on U.S. veterans’ role in right-wing […]

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25/06/2020

Jak Allen, PhD

Jak Allen is Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Kent. His research area and expertise are in U.S. twentieth century history, combining the disciplines of history, politics, and law, with a particular focus on the courts, civil liberties, and the Constitution. Jak has worked in both the public and private sector, as an […]

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25/06/2020

Flavia Macías, PhD

She is a CONICET Associate Researcher (with tenure) specializing in the history of violence in Argentina and Latin America in the 19th century, at the University of Buenos Aires. At the UBA, she researches and teaches at the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr. Emilio Ravignani.” She received her Ph.D at the National University of La [...]
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25/06/2020

Eleftheria Tsirakoglou, PhD

Eleftheria Tsirakoglou graduated from the University of Thessaloniki with a B.A. in English Language and Literature. She subsequently earned an M.A. in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Leeds. She was awarded a Ph.D. in American Literature from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, with a dissertation examining Edgar Allan Poe translations and literary influence […]

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25/06/2020

Eduardo Rencurrell Díaz, PhD

Eduardo holds a Ph.D of Arts (Awarded as the Best Ph. D thesis of  2019) from the University of the Arts (ISA) of Cuba / Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). From the same schools he received his Bachelor’s on Audiovisual Communication with Summa Cum Laude and a Master’s degree on Film Production with Distinction. He […]

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25/06/2020

Corneliu C Simut, PhD

Corneliu C Simut is Senior Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religion within the University of Pretoria, working under the supervision of Professor Johan Buitendag. He holds a full Professorship in Historical and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University of Oradea, in his native Romania, where he also supervises doctorates in theology […]

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25/06/2020

Agustín Daniel Desiderato, MA

Agustín Desiderato is a historian from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His  areas of interest are related to social and cultural studies about war, particularly focused on 19th and 20th century Maritime History. After graduating as BA. and MA. in History, he began his doctorate at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), with a project that analyses [...]
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18/06/2020

Riaan Eksteen, PhD

Riaan Eksteen was  a member of the South African Foreign Service for 27 years. Served in the Foreign Ministry’s Namibia Division 1964-1967; S.A. Embassy in Washington D.C. 1968-1973; head of the UN and Namibian division in the Foreign Ministry 1973-1976; Ambassador and Head of Mission at UN, New York, 1976-1981; Head of Planning in the […]

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18/06/2020

Ramona Simuț, PhD

Ramona Simuț (b. 1976) is reader in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania. In the course of her academic training, Ramona completed her bachelor studies with a double major in literature and theology from the University of Oradea, Romania, and afterwards pursued her theological interest at the School of Divinity, […]

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