Joining a Prestigious Club

Eleonora Narvselius, PhD, is an anthropologist affiliated with the Centre for Language and Literature and Center for European Studies at Lund University. She is the author of Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L’viv: Narratives, Identity and Power (Lexington Books, 2012), and co-editor (with Gelinada Grinchenko) of Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory: Formulas of Betrayal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She recently participated in the international project Memory of Vanished Population Groups and Societies in Today’s East- and Central European Urban Environments. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in Lviv, Chernivci, Chisinau and Wrocław (funded by the Swedish research foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2011-2014). Gergana Dimova holds a PhD in politics from Harvard University. She is currently an associate lecturer in global politics at the University of Winchester in the UK and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge. Her forthcoming book, titled Democracy beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age, examines the crisis of democracy through the prism of media allegations and government accountability. Gergana’s academic articles and media expertise have been featured in Demokratizatsiya, Observatorio, New Atlanticist, and Huffington Post, among others. Dr Dimova is the book reviews editor for the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Andreas Umland (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” (ibidem Press 2004-). His papers have appeared in, among other journals, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Europe-Asia Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Russian Politics and Law.

Paweł Kowal is a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of European History and Civilization at the College of Europe in Natolin, where he co-leads, together with Professor Georges Mink, the Three Ukrainian Revolutions project. He is also Assistant Professor in the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past he served as a Member of the European Parliament and the chairman of the EU delegation to Ukraine. Georges Mink is professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, director of Research at the Intsitut des Sciences Sociales et du Politique (CNRS, France), Université de Paris X, Nanterre. He is a sociologist and political scientist specializing in Central and Eastern Europe. His current research focuses on the question of transitional justice in EU countries. Mink is Associate Professor at Science Po, Paris (since 1973) Iwona Reichardt is deputy chief editor of New Eastern Europe. She holds a PhD in political science from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her previous experience includes work with Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, DC and policy analysis work with the World Bank. Reichardt is also the author of a number of academic texts, journalistic articles and papers.