Alexander C. T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at New York University, USA. He holds a joint appointment at NYU Shanghai and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City.

Daniel Brandau is a postdoctoral research associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Tilmann Siebeneichner is a postdoctoral research associate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.