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Notes on Contributors William M. Aird William M. Aird lectures on Medieval History at Cardiff University, Wales. He was awarded a PhD by Edinburgh University in 1991. With a particular interest in the history of the Normans in the 11th and 12th centuries, he is the author of St. Cuthbert and the Normans. The Church of Durham, 1071-1153 (Woodbridge, 1998) and Duke Robert Curthose of Normandy, 1087-1134 (Woodbridge, forthcoming). His current research concerns the medieval Life of St Margaret of Scotland. Olena Betlii Olena Betlii is Lecturer in EU foreign policy at the Diplomatic academy of Ukraine and Lecturer in History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla academy in Kiev, Ukraine, where she took her PhD. Her research interests cover mental mapping, regional identity, and otherness discourse issues with a particular interest in the development or construction of Central Europe s symbolic map and identity politics in terms of EU enlargement. Her bibliography contains fourteen articles on this topic. Anna Czocher Anna Czocher graduated from the Jagiellonian University is currently the department head at the Krakow branch of the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance and she is a PhD student at the Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University. She is completing a doctoral thesis entitled Everyday Life in occupied Krakow in the years 1939-1945, focusing on the history of the customs of the Polish inhabitants of the city (family life, leisure time, celebrations). Laurent Gaissad Laurent Gaissad completed a PhD in sociology and social sciences (University of Toulouse le Mirail, France, 2006), and presently holds a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS / Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) in a comparative history research program dedicated to Norms, gender and sexuality (19-20th centuries). His surveys on sex in public space (men-to-men and sex work), and his publications in various fields (socio-anthropology, urban history and geography, public health), lead him to work at present on the dialectics of exposure / secrecy in urban and rural contexts. Formerly teaching assistant in sociology and anthropology (urban studies and inter-cultural relations) in Toulouse, he is also a member of FRAMESPA (CNRS / University of Toulouse le Mirail).

330 Notes on Contributors Kieran Hoare Kieran Hoare received his MA in Irish History in University College Cork, Ireland in 1993, with the thesis The Earldom and Supremacy of Desmond: the case study of a lordship, 1329-1583. He is currently a doctoral student at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. His areas of interest relate to the development of an urban oligarchy in Irish towns in the 15th and 16th centuries, their interaction with Tudor state formation and their hinterlands, as well as the operation of municipal government within the towns themselves. Ute Hofmann Ute Hofmann has studied Modern History, Sociology and Applied Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology. She graduated in 2006 and is now working on her doctoral thesis about the political engagement of the Bohemian nobility during the 1860s. Jaroslav Ira Jaroslav Ira graduated in 2005 with a degree in history and political science at Charles University in Prague. At present, he is a postgraduate student of general history at the same institution. He specializes in the modern history of East-Central Europe concentrating in particular on the formation of territorial, urban, and political identities as displayed in the chapter of this book, and on theoretical and methodological problems of historiography, urban studies, and the study of texts. Dobrochna Kałwa Dobrochna Kałwa is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of History ( Jagiellonian University, Cracow). The main fields of her research interest are gender history, the history of feminism in Poland, oral history, the memory of communism and the history of everyday life in modern Poland. Among her publications are An active woman in interwar Poland. Dilemma of women s movement, and Customs in Poland. From the Middle Ages to the Present (as co-author). Barbara Klich-Kluczewska Barbara Klich-Kluczewska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests cover the social and urban history of the post-war Poland; the history of everyday life and the history of customs in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the methodology of private life and alternative sources. She is the author of Przez dziurke od klucza. Życie prywatne w Krakowie w latach 1945-1989 [Through the Keyhole. Private Life in Cracow 1945-1989]. Her current projects

Notes on Contributors 331 concern taboo as a mental border in the societies of Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s and 1970s. Lud a Klusáková Luďa Klusáková is Associate Professor of History (1988) at the Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2000, she has been responsible for the Seminar of General and Comparative History. She took her scientific degree from the same university in 1981 for her comparative research on the modernization of European urban networks. Her publications include The Road to Constantinople: The Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Towns Through Christian Eyes (2002; and 2004 in Czech), as well as many articles on problems of urban innovations, modernity and backwardness. Recently, she was the editor of We and the Others : European Societies in Search of Identity, Studies in Comparative History (Studia Historica LIV, AUC Philosophica et Historica 3/2000, Prague 2004), and co-editor of Meeting the Other Studies in Comparative History (Studia Historica LVI, AUC, Philosophica et Historica 2/2003, Prague 2007). Her current interest is represented by the chapter in this book. Iakovos Michailidis Iakovos Michailidis is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary and Modern History at the Department of History & Archaeology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). His research interests focus on population movements in South East Europe, the position of minorities and the intervention of the Great Powers. Among his recent publications are The War of Statistics: Slav-Speaking Emigrants and Refugees from Greece (1912-1930) and Greek Yugoslav Relations (1944-1949) (in two volumes). Frédéric Moret Frédéric Moret completed a thesis in history (University Paris 7) in 1994 and is Maître de Conférences and Director of the Humanity and Social Sciences Department of the University Paris-Est Marne la Vallée. His first interests focused on the urban conceptions developed by the utopian socialists and he published on this subject Les Socialistes et la Ville Grande-Bretagne, France. 1820-1850 (ENS éditions, 1999). At present, he works on different aspects of urban history in the first half of the 19th century : the impact of the building of the fortifications of Paris on the development of the metropolis, but also the municipal reform of 1835 in Great Britain. He coordinates a research project of his laboratory (Analyse Comparée des Pouvoirs, University Paris-Est Marne la Vallée) on the petitions sent to the French parliamentary assemblies from 1815 to 1940, supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR).

332 Notes on Contributors Florin Pintescu Florin Pintescu is currently Associate Professor at the Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava (Romania) where he teaches European Mediaeval History, Theory of International Relations, Geopolitics and Geostrategy. He received his Ph.D. from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) in 2003. His main research interests are European mediaeval military history, Geopolitics and Geostrategy. Markéta P. Rubešová Markéta P. Rubešová received her MA degree in General History and Hebrew Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic in 2007, with a thesis entitled The Ottoman State and Society as Reflected in Rabbinic Literature of the 16th - 18th Centuries. She is currently a doctoral student at Charles University, Prague. Her research interests include Jewish history under Christianity and under Islam in a comparative perspective, the individual and society in the historical process, Jewish emancipation and assimilation, especially the question of continuity and change in the sphere of the individual and collective identities. Blanka Szeghyová Blanka Szeghyová studied history and archive studies, English and Latin languages at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2004 she completed her PhD. in history with a dissertation on Judiciary and Judicial Practice in the Pentapolitana towns in the 16th Century and in 2005 edited a book of conference proceedings The Role of Magic in the Past. At present, she is a junior researcher at the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include crime and punishment, the history of mentalities and urban history in the early modern period. Ewelina Szpak Ewelina Szpak is a PhD student in her fourth year at the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. In 2004, she graduated from the History Department of the Jagiellonian University with her Master s thesis entitled Everyday Life of the inhabitants of State Farms during the Communist Period, which was published in 2005. The main fields of her research interests are oral and rural history, the history of mentalities and everyday life. Her current project concerns mental changes under communism in Polish rural societies. Jozef Tancer Jozef Tancer is an Assistant Professor in German Literature at the Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, Comenius University in Bratislava. He received

Notes on Contributors 333 his Ph.D. degree in 2005 with a dissertation on the German press and literature in 18th-century Bratislava (published in 2008 as In the Shadows of Vienna. German Press and Literature in the 18th century Bratislava, Bremen, edition lumière). His research focuses on German culture in the Hungarian Kingdom, especially on the German historical press and travel literature. He has co-edited books of conference proceedings: German Language and Culture in the Pressburg Region (2002) and German Language and Culture in the Zips Region (2007). Laure Teulières Laure Teulières completed a PhD in history and in 2007 was elected maître de conférence at the History department of the Université de Toulouse le Mirail. Specializing in migration history and cultural history, her most notable publications include Immigrés d Italie et paysans de France, 1920-1944 (Toulouse 2002), and she recently coordinated thematic papers such as In memory of migrations (Diasporas. Histoire et sociétés, 2005), Images of migrations (Migrance, 2007), and Heritage and immigration (Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2007). A member of the Laboratory FRAMESPA (CNRS / University of Toulouse in France), she works at present on issues of migrant memories and collective identities in France and in transnational perspective. She is also a member of the editorial committee for the scientific review «Diasporas. Histoire et sociétés». Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Bram Vannieuwenhuyze is a PhD student at Ghent University (Belgium). He has written a Masters thesis on the civil services of the medieval town of Brussels (1229-1477). Currently, he is completing his PhD thesis on the urban development of medieval and early modern Brussels, which will be defended at Ghent University in Spring 2008. In the future, he plans to conduct a comparative study on medieval toponomy and its relationship with urban society, topography and development. Ruth Wallach Ruth Wallach holds a Masters in Library Science from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Masters in Public Art Studies from the University of Southern California (USC). She is currently Head of the Architecture and Fine Arts Library at USC. In addition to disciplinary areas within academic librarianship, her research also focuses on public art within the contemporary urban context.