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Andrea Strutz, PD Dr., is Senior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War and a lecturer at the University of Graz.

Her research fields include historical migration studies, exile history, Jewish history and displacement, memory studies, National Socialism and restitution matters, biographical studies, theoretical and methodological questions of oral and video history.
Among other topics, Andrea Strutz researched life stories of Jewish displaced persons from Austria in the USA and analyzed the transformation and transmission of memories to the second and third generations. Her postdoctoral project examined the history of Austrian migration to Canada between 1890 and the 1960s, with a particular focus on Jewish immigration. She has widely published in the field of historical migration research, the history of exile (esp. in Canada), and the treatment of victims of National Socialism. She is co-producer of the video documentary "continental divide. divided lives" about memories and narratives in families of Austrian-Jewish displaced persons in New York.

She serves as Network Chair of the Oral History and Life Stories Network of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen – BIOS”.
Since 2023, she is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Canadian Studies (ZKS). From 2017 to 2023, she was head of the History Section of the Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien (GKS) | Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries.
She is also co-speaker of the PhD program „Migration − Diversity − Global Societies“ at the University of Graz.

Alissa Symon is currently undertaking her PhD in the University of Oxford under the supervision of Dr Michael Biggs. Her thesis examines the political relationship between Israel and American Jews. Her research interests focus on issues connected to the homeland-diaspora paradigm, transnational political activism, religious studies and interfaith relations.

Kim Tao is the curator of post-Federation immigration at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Her research interests include migration, memory and material culture in museums, textile histories and histories of child migration. Kim has curated a range of award-winning exhibitions and digital projections. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study partnerships between museums and culturally diverse communities in the UK, Canada and USA.

Jofelle P. Tesorio is a migration researcher within the International Development Studies (IDS) group, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Utrecht University. She is part of the Horizon 2020 Welcoming Spaces project at UU. Also trained as a journalist, she has been investigating media representations of different groups of migrants, and emplacement and networks of Ukrainian migrants within key European receiving countries. She has worked on other research projects on irregular migrants, labour migrants, South-South migration, and sustainable development. She is also the coordinator of Shared Value Foundation (SVF), an Utrecht University-hosted research NGO that focuses on the social impact of development projects.

Phillip Thebe is a PhD fellow in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a development studies researcher specializing in globalization and migration. He has published a number of academic articles, presented in several conferences, and has wide research experience in Africa, Europe and Asia. His present research explores the Aspirations of Zimbabweans and other Sub-Saharan Africans in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Malin Thor Tureby gained her PhD at Linnaeus University in 2005 (History). During the years 2005-2014 she worked as a senior lecture in history and oral history at Malmo university, where she became Docent in 2013 (History) and was promoted Associated Professor (History/Oral History) the same year. Since 2014 Thor Tureby works at Linköping university where she was appointed as Associated Professor (History) in 2015. She is one of the co-founders of Oral History in Sweden (OHIS) and co-chair of the European Social Science Conference (ESSHC) Oral history and life stories network.
Thor Tureby is currently the PI and PL of the research projects Narratives as cultural heritage. Power and resistance in collections of narratives from and about immigrants at the archive of Nordic Museum 1970–2015 and Jewish and Woman. Historical and Intersectional perspectives on Jewish Women’s lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first century. Both projects are funded by the Swedish Research Council.
She is also the PI and the PL for the research project Oral history as digital heritage in the age of migration. A project that is part the international research consortium and research project DigiCONFLICT, funded by JPICH. The Swedish research team is researching the involvement of cultural heritage institutions and other actors, while collecting, curating and using oral histories during and about the refugee reception of 2015. The Swedish study is funded by The Swedish National Heritage Board.

Ramesh Timsina, an M. A. in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, has been pursuing other Master’s in Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He completed his first Master’s in English in 2015 and his Bachelor’s in Religion and Society from MF Scientific College, Norway, in 2022. He has worked as an English teacher for seven years, including two years of experience as a high school teacher in a public school in Nepal. He is keenly interested in literature, literary theories, cultural studies, human rights issues, migration, and sociology. He has contributed to both creative and critical writing in newspapers and journals. He has some poems, opinion articles, and journal articles published to his credit.