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Vinícius Bivar

is a PhD candidate in modern history at the Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation examines the development of anticommunist ideas and practices in Brazil and Nazi Germany (1933–38), a project funded by the DAAD. In addition, he writes on topics related to dictatorship and democracy, history and the circulation of political ideas, and current affairs, focusing on the far right in Europe and Latin America. Prior to his arrival in Berlin, he obtained his BA in history from the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and MA in European history, politics, and society from Columbia University (USA).

Susana Brauner

is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Fundación Argentina de la Empresa–UADE, Buenos Aires. She has a PhD in political science from the Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, and obtained her MA and BA in history from Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan universities (Israel), respectively. She is a specialist in Chinese and Middle Eastern Jewish migrations to Argentina and Latin America, contemporary religious and political movements, and questions of otherness, ethnicity, and diaspora studies. Susana Brauner is the author of numerous articles in academic journals and book chapters published in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, the United States, France and Israel. Among her books are Los judíos de Alepo en Argentina (2005), Ortodoxia religiosa y pragmatismo político: los judíos de origen sirio (2009), and El Mundo después de la Primera Guerra Mundial (2014).

Jürgen Buchenau

is chair and professor of history at UNC Charlotte. He gained his PhD in history at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993. His research interests include modern Mexico, and especially political culture, immigration, international history, foreign travel writing, and the Mexican Revolution. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of nine books, including In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy (1996), Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865–Present (2004), Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (2007), and Mexico, The Once and Future Revolution (2013, with Gilbert M. Joseph). He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the U.S. Department of Education, and the German Academic Exchange Service, among many others.

Jerry Dávila

is Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and executive director of the Illinois Global Institute. His research deals with race relations, social movements, and public policy in Brazil. He is the author of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945 (2003), Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980 (2010), and Dictatorship in South America (2013). He is also co-author of A History of World Societies, 11th ed. (2018). Jerry Dávila has taught in Brazil as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of São Paulo (2000), and as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2005).

Omri Elmaleh

is a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University. He is the recipient of the Rotenstreich Outstanding Doctoral Student Fellowship and his research has been supported by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture, and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He has published several articles on the Lebanese diaspora in the Triple Frontier region.

Gustavo Guzmán

is a PhD candidate in history at Tel Aviv University. His doctoral research, dealing with the Chilean Right’s changing attitudes toward Jews throughout the twentieth century, proposes an innovative perspective for the study of antisemitism in Latin America. Instead of focusing on fascists and far rightists, whose anti-Jewish hostility has been studied extensively, his research deals with diverse rightists and their attitudes toward Jews, highlighting changes and continuities. He received the Robert Wistrich Prize 2017, granted by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and the Raoul Wallenberg Award Scholarship 2018 from the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University.

Adrián Krupnik

submitted his doctoral dissertation in history, titled “Jewish-Argentine Return Migration from Israel, 1948–2006,” at Tel Aviv University. He previously studied sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, and completed a Master’s degree in international relations at Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina, and in Israel studies at Haifa University. He is a fellow of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, and a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University and the University of Potsdam.

Rayén Torres

has a Master’s degree in political science and a Bachelor’s degree in international relations. A full-time scholar at Fundación Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), she has participated in research projects on migrants in Argentina as well as on Chinese culture. She has presented papers at several conferences and is the author of many publications on these subjects.

Raanan Rein

is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and vice president of Tel Aviv University. He is also head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. Raanan Rein is the author and editor of more than thirty books and well over a hundred articles in academic journals and book chapters, in several languages. He is a member of Argentina’s National Academy of History, and former president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). The Argentine government awarded him the title of Commander of the Order of the Liberator San Martin for his contribution to Argentine culture. The Spanish king awarded him the title of Commander of the Order of Civil Merit. In 2016, he won the Reimar Lüst Award (co-sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation). In March 2017, he was declared a Guest of Honor of the City of Buenos Aires.

Stefan Rinke

is Professor of Latin American History and Dean of Research at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. He was president of AHILA from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 he was awarded the José Antonio Alzate Prize from the Academica Mexicana de Ciencias and CONACYT and in 2018 an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. In 2013 he received an Einstein Research Fellowship. He is the head of the Graduate School “Temporalidades del Futuro”, a cooperative doctoral program with El Colegio de México, UNAM, and CIESAS. His most recent book is Conquistadoren und Azteken: Cortés und die Eroberung Mexikos (Munich 2019). He authored thirteen books, edited 35 volumes and published more than 170 articles and book chapters. Since 2019 he is a corresponding member of the Mexican and Ecuadorian Academies of History.

Andrea Romo-Pérez

is a lecturer in the Master Intercultural Conflict Management degree program at the Alice Salomon Hochschule (Berlin). In 2018–19, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD in history from the Freie Universität Berlin, and a Master’s degree in public management from Potsdam University. She has conducted research on policing in Latin America, migration, female offenders, police corruption and sexual misconduct in provisional detention centers, intersectional discrimination, and gender-based violence. Her work appears in prestigious international journals, such as Police Practice and Research, Feminist Criminology and Policing and Society. Outside her academic life, she has worked in the print media and Ecuador’s public sector.

Hagai Rubinstein

is a PhD candidate at the Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. He holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University, based on his thesis “The Muslim Diaspora in Chile,” which examines the formation of Islamic groups in Chile throughout the twentieth century. His current research, titled “Nakba, Naksa and Intifada: Diaspora, Transnationalism and the Shaping of Palestinian-Chilean Identity,” focuses on shifts among Palestinian immigrants against the background of a changing reality, both in Chile and the Middle East.

Fabio Santos

is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on global histories, interdependent inequalities, and the study of borders and spaces. He works as an assistant professor of sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, and was a doctoral fellow at the German-Mexican Graduate School “Between Spaces”—a cooperative doctoral program with El Colegio de México, UNAM, and CIESAS. He is currently working on a book based on his thesis, “Bridging Fluid Borders: Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland.” Derived from ethnographic fieldwork in French Guiana and Amapá, this is the first sociological account dealing with the EU’s external border with Brazil. In spring 2020, he was a guest professor of international development at the University of Vienna.

David M.K. Sheinin

is professor of history at Trent University. He is the winner of the Trent University Distinguished Research Award (2017), and has served as the university’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada mentor since 2015. A member of the Argentine National Academy of History, he has held the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (Library of Congress/American Historical Association), and in 2008 was named Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book is Making Citizens in Argentina (co-edited with Benjamin Bryce, 2017).

Atalia Shragai

is a social and cultural historian of inter-American relations, with special emphasis on migration. She holds a PhD in history from the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University (2014), and serves as a lecturer in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Department of History at the Kibbutzim College of Education. Recent articles of hers have appeared in the Journal of Social History and The Oral History Review.

Lelia Stadler

is a PhD student in Columbia University’s Department of History. She holds an MA in Latin American history from Tel Aviv University. Her current ‎research focuses on twentieth-century Jewish-Latin American history from a regional and gendered perspective.

Claudia Stern

is a research associate at the Latin American Centre for the History of Housing CEIHVAL, in the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires, FADU-UBA. She is also coeditor of Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies, in the Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas series (forthcoming).

Aya Udagawa

is a research fellow at Tel Aviv University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Tokyo in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, “Life and Quest among the Secular Jews in Argentina,” is based on her field research conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the period 2011–13. A book based on her thesis, Jews in Spite of All (in Japanese; forthcoming, 2020), explores the various spheres of Jewish memory, from food memory through family recipes to collective memory accumulated in archives. She has started a new research project, “Anthropology of Archives in Israel,” focusing on the archive as a memory agent in Israel. Her research interests include memory, archives, artifacts, Diaspora and Israel, spiritual search, and food studies.

Pablo Adrián Vázquez

completed his undergraduate studies in political science at the Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, and is currently a doctoral student in communication at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He teaches at the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES), Buenos Aires and is a board member of the national Juan Manuel de Rosas and Eva Perón institutes.

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