JoAnn Conrad is a professor of Folklore, Cultural History, and Anthropology. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Univ. of Missouri, UC Davis, Univ. of Iceland, and currently teaches at Diablo Valley College. Her fields of research include narrative, childhood, visual culture, and women’s history, with a particular interest in “the North.” She has published in JAF, Narrative Culture, Fabula, Ethnologia Europaea, and in several edited collections.

Dr. Rozemarijn van de Wal is an independent researcher currently working on a biography on Dutch feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus (1881-1942). Manus was an important figure in the (international) women’s and peace movement and also the founder of the Dutch archives for the women’s movement (today called Atria). The book is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2030. Van de Wal holds a PhD in gender history from the University of Groningen for her book ‘Dancing in the Kitchens of History: Eileen Power (1889-1940)’. Eileen Power was a part of the first generation of historians writing women’s history and in 1931 became professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Van de Wal also works as curator at the National Prison Museum located in the only remaining unfree asylum of the Colonies of Benevolance, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021.

Kelly Fitzgerald is the former Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in UCD as well as being the subject head of Irish Folklore & Ethnology. She was previously the President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland and Chairperson of ANU Productions. She has written on the intellectual history and development of Irish folkloristics and archives amongst other aspects of folklore studies and oral history. She sits on the editorial board of Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland. Recently she directed the collecting of oral histories in the development phase of Dublin’s Tenement Museum She is currently overseeing the collecting of a number of oral history initiatives in social housing communities in Dublin including the Iveagh Markets.

Dr. Reza Bayat is a researcher at the Center for Global Migration Studies and completed his PhD in Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen. His work focuses on migration, ethnographic (border)regime research, health, trauma, digital practices, narrative research, and embodiment. He is the author of Akkumulierte Prekarität, which examines how trauma, suffering, and victimhood narratives shape the regulation and racialization of Iranian refugees in Germany. His postdoc project, Accessibility as Politics of Life, analyzes how German health system structures intersect with bordering mechanisms and how migration histories inform the production and implementation of “right to health” and “protection of life.”