ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
Lorena Anton is Junior Assistant in Anthropology at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, where she founded a Research Group on Memory Studies. Her current research interests are on the memory of Communism in Europe, and the relation between this and the EU’s politics of identity.
Timothy Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. A two-time Fulbright recipient, his work has appeared in the American Historical Review, the German Studies Review, and Contemporary European History. He is the author of "Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance" (2009), and is currently working on a monograph entitled "1968: West Germany in the World."
Belinda Davis, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, is author of Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill, 2000) and co-editor with T. Lindenberger and M. Wildt of Alltag—Erfahrung—Eigensinn: Historisch-anthropologische Erkundungen (Frankfurt am Main and New York, 2008). She is currently completing a book on “The Internal Life of Politics: The ‘New Left’ in West Germany, 1962–1983.”
Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute. Her recent publications include "Globalization from Below" (University of Minnesota Press, 2006); "Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti" (Il Mulino, 2006); "Social Movements: an Introduction" (2nd edition, Blackwell, 2006) and "Transnational Protest and Global Activism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Thomas Ekman Jorgensen received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2004. He has published a number of articles on the left in the 1960s and 1970s, on comparative European history and on youth movements around the Great War. In 2008, he published "1968 – og det der fulgte" (1968 – and that which came after) together with Steven L. B. Jensen. He presently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Martin Klimke is a historian and research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University, Germany. His research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on diplomatic and transnational history. Klimke is currently co-authoring "A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany" (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, Fall 2010) and writing a biography of peace activists Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg.
Hara Kouki ia a historian and a PhD candidate in the Law Department at Birkbeck College, London. She has graduated in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens and also holds a master in Film and History from the University of Kent and a master of research in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence. For her doctoral work and other projects, Hara has conducted extensive research in Moscow, Athens, London, Paris and Amsterdam, while her research interests lie in the history of human rights and political mobilisation in the post war world.
Carla MacDougall is a PhD candidate in Modern German History at Rutgers University, where she is completing a dissertation on popular protest against urban renewal in West Berlin.
Wilfried Mausbach is the Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne where he studied History, Political Science, and Philosophy. He has been a research fellow at the GHI in Washington, D.C., and has held assistant professorships in history at both the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin and Heidelberg University. He is currently working on a book about Germany and the Vietnam War.
Jacco Pekelder studied history at Utrecht University, where in 1998 he finished a dissertation on the Netherlands’ relations with the German Democratic Republic (published in German: "Die Niederlande und die DDR: Bildformung und Beziehungen, 1949-1989," 2002). From 2002 to 2007 he was research coordinator of the Germany Institute at Amsterdam University (DIA). Since late 2007 he is lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University. His research centers on the societal impact of leftwing political violence in Germany in the 1970s.
Gianni Piazza is Assistant Professor at the University of Catania, where he teaches Political Science and Public Policy Analysis. He is the Co-Editor of the scientific journal "Partecipazione e Conflitto" and the Co-Responsible of the SISP Standing Group on "Social Movements and Political Participation." He is the author of "La città degli affari" (1994), "Sindaci e politiche in Sicilia" (1998), the co-author of "Politiche e partecipazione" (2004), "Protests and Arguments: The Citizens' Committees' Campaigns Against Traffic in Four Italian Cities" (2005) and "Le ragioni del no" (2008).
Eduardo Romanos is a Juan de la Cierva research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Public University of Navarre, Spain. He received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, and has been fellow at research centres in Amsterdam, Groningen and Trento. His main research interests are in the areas of social movements and political ideologies. He has published on the history of the Spanish anarchist movement, particularly during the Francoist dictatorship.
Joachim Scharloth is a linguist and his research concentrates on the history of language, socio-linguistics, social movements, as well as discourse semantics. He is the author of "Sprachnormen und Mentalitaeten. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 und 1785" (2005) and co-editor of "1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte" (2007), as well as "1968 in Europe" (2008). His most recent book is "1968. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte" (forthcoming, 2010).
Simon Teune works at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. His research interests are social movements, protest, and culture. He is a Fellow of the Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung and his dissertation focuses on the communication strategies of global justice groups during the anti-G8 protests in Germany 2007. He is co-editor of "Nur Clowns und Chaoten?", which explores the media event of the Heiligendamm protests (Campus, 2008).
