Editorial Board

Prof. Dorte Jagetic Andersen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark): Dorte Jagetic Andersen is associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Centre for Border Region Studies. Her research interests locate within border studies, where she has a long track record in theoretically founded studies, working critically with the concept of borders and bordering practices. Empirically her work mainly concerns identity-formation in border areas influenced by conflict, especially border regions in the former Yugoslavia, linking identity-formation and bordering practices with border ontologies by applying her "border multiple approach". She has published extensively in the key journals and book series in border studies. Another documented research interest of hers is in European Studies, where she published in top journals, and she is in the board of the Danish Association of European Community Studies (DSE). Her background is interdisciplinary, being educated in European Ethnology, European Continental Philosophy and Political Discourse Analysis.
Prof. Marina Andeva (University American College Skopje, North Macedonia): Marina Andeva is an Associate Professor at the University American College Skopje (UACS), specializing in political science with a focus on minority rights, migration, and cross-border cooperation. She has been affiliated with UACS since at least 2015, serving as an Assistant Professor and later as Secretary General. In addition to her academic roles, Dr. Andeva is a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Sociology of Gorizia (ISIG) in Italy, where she has been involved since 2009. Dr. Andeva's research encompasses topics such as non-territorial autonomy, minority protection, and migration management. She has contributed to various publications, including co-authoring the open-access textbook Non-Territorial Autonomy: An Introduction, published in 2023. She is also a member of the Working Group of Women Experts on Foreign and Security Policy at the Prespa Institute.
Prof. Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen's University, Canada)
Dr. Balázs Dobos (Institute for Minority Studies, Hungary): Balázs Dobos is a political scientist, historian and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies within the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He received PhD in political science from the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research field mainly concerns the political and legal situation, the political participation and representation of minorities through various institutional channels in Hungary and in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular non-territorial cultural autonomies and Roma political mobilization. He held courses on ethnic conflicts, nationalisms and nation-building processes and minority policies in Central and Eastern Europe at Corvinus and Eötvös Loránd universities. He is author of several publications (in journals like Ethnopolitics and Nationalities Papers, and publishers like Brill, Peter Lang, Routledge, and Springer), two Hungarian monographs and, together with other scholars, co-editor of the textbook Non-Territorial Autonomy: An Introduction (Springer, 2023).
Prof. François Grin (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Prof. Kristin Henrard (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Prof. Elin Jones (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK): Professor Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones has worked in the field of European minoritized languages for over three decades (projects, networks, publications, conferences, PhD supervision, editorial boards) having started her career as researcher with the Mercator Network. She was lecturer, senior lecturer and professor at Aberystwyth University before joining the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2019. Since 2021, she is Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, a multidisciplinary specialist research centre of 25 staff and 12 postgraduate students, established in 1985. She is a founder member of the International Association of Minority Language Media Research, former Chair of the International Conference on Minority Languages, academic lead of the Collaborative Research Network for Bilingual Education and the Welsh Language, consultant to the Council of Europe's Standing Committee on Democracy, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI), Vice-Chair of the Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities and president of ELEN, the European Language Equality Network.
Prof. Emma Lantschner (Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria)
Dr. Miren Manias-Muñoz (University of the Basque Country, Spain): Dr. Miren Manias-Muñoz is Associate Professor and Researcher in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where she teaches courses on Entrepreneurship in Communication and Photojournalism (both undergraduate) in different languages (Spanish, Basque and English). She has also been a lecturer in the Master in Social Communication at the UPV/EHU. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Mondragon and a PhD in Social Communication from the UPV/EHU. Her lines of research focus on cultural and communication policies, the media in minority languages and audiovisual diversity. She has conducted postdoctoral research stays at the University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). In addition, she has been a visiting professor at Washington University in St Louis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. She is co-founder of the International Association for Minority-language Media Research (IAMLMR) and currently chairs its Steering Committee. She also coordinates the Biannual International Conference on Minority-language Media with past editions in the University of Edinburgh (October 2019), the European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg (March 2022) and North-West University, Mahikeng (July 2024). She has participated in collective books and scientific publications including the journals Profesional de la Informacion, Observatorio (OBS*), Historia y Comunicacion Social and Communication & Society. She has co-edited the volume Minority Language Media: Current Challenges in a Fragmented Mediascape within the Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities book series.
Prof. Olena Palko (Basel University, Switzerland): Olena Palko is a historian of Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on minority history in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. She is an assistant professor at the University of Basel. She was awarded her PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2017 and previously held the position of Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and a co-editor of Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing Borders in Twentieth Century (McGill Queen's University Press, 2022) and Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited (transcript Verlag, 2023).
Prof. Antonija Petričušić (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Antonija Petričušić is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb. She is also a visiting professor and a member of the International Academic Council of the European Regional Master's Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe. In her professional work, she is predominantly dealing with human rights, particularly rights of various societal minorities: women, national minorities, and LGBTIQA+ persons. From 2018 to 2022 she served as an expert in the Council of Europe's Advisory Committee Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities with respect to Croatia, being the Gender Equality Rapporteur of this expert body.
Dr. Federica Prina (University of Glasgow, UK): Federica Prina is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Glasgow's Central and East European Studies (CEES), School of Social and Political Sciences. She obtained her PhD (Politics) in 2012 from University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). She has published widely on minority rights and inter-ethnic relations, particularly in the Russian Federation. Publications include National Minorities in Putin's Russia: Diversity and Assimilation (Routledge, 2016) and peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Nationalities Papers, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, European Yearbook of Minority Issues and Review of Central and East European Law.
Dr. Andreea Racleş (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Dr. Kristina Sehlin MacNeil (Umeå University, Sweden): Kristina Sehlin MacNeil is an Associate Professor of Sámi Studies and the Deputy Director for Várdduo - Centre for Sámi Research at Umeå University in Sweden, where she is also a researcher. Her research focuses on conflict and power relations between Indigenous communities and extractive industries and international comparisons of these; violence that impacts Indigenous people; and Indigenous methodologies and ethics. She has extensive experience working with Indigenous communities, predominantly in Sápmi and Australia. Sehlin MacNeil is a member of several international Indigenous research networks, including as a co-researcher in the Canadian MinErAL, and serves on the board of Swedish ethnographic journal Kulturella Perspektiv and the editorial board of JEMIE.
Prof. Reetta Toivanen (University of Helsinki, Finland): Reetta Toivanen (PhD 2000, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is professor in Sustainability Science at HELSUS and Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also a docent in social and cultural anthropology. She is the vice-director of the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (EuroStorie) and the PI of the subproject Migration and the narratives of Europe as an "Area of freedom, security and justice" (2018–2025) funded by the Research Council of Finland. She is since 2023 Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of Robert Bosch Academy.
Prof. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain): Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, PhD in History (EUI Florence), is Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has also taught at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (2012–17) and has been visiting professor at the College of Europe, Natolin. His research interests include the comparative history of national movements and territorial identities, overseas migration, the cultural history of war and violence, and the memory of the dictatorships. Among his latest books are Sites of the Dictators: Memories of Authoritarian Europe (London, 2021), The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front (Toronto, 2022), Beyond Folklore: The Franco Regime and Spain's Territorial Plurality (London, 2024) and The Eastern Front in European Memory: On Victims and Heroes, 1945–2024 (London, 2025).
Prof. Myra Waterbury (Ohio University, US)