Sergei ABASHIN, Research Fellow, Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. abashin@iea.ras.ru

Najam ABBAS, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Central Asian Studies Unit, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK. nabbas@iis.ac.uk

IGOR ALEXEEV, PhD. in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. ialexeyev@mail.ru

Narynbek ALYMKULOV, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Government Administration, Zh. Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. narynbek2003@yandex.ru

Gulaiym ASHAKEEVA, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Zh. Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. gulayim_kr2002@mail.ru

Vladimir BOBROVNIKOV, Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. vladbobr@hotmail.com

Robert D. CREWS, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. rcrews@stanford.edu

Sebastian CWIKLINSKI, Ph.D. student, Institute for Turkic Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany. sebastian.cwiklinski@web.de

Vadim DOLGOV, Associate Professor, Department of History, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia. dolgov@udm.ru

Akim ELNAZAROV, Research Fellow, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK. aelnazar@iis.ac.uk

Bulat FATKULIN, Assistant Professor, Chair of Eastern and Roman-Germanic Languages, Department of Eurasian and Eastern Studies, Cheliabinsk State University, Russia. fatkulin@csu.ru

Andreas FRINGS, MA, Department of East European History, University of Mainz, Germany. afrings@uni-mainz.de

Clifford GEERTZ, Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA. geertz@ias.edu

Charles J. HALPERIN, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. chalperi@indiana.edu

Tomasz KAMUSELLA, Ph.D., Lecturer, Opole University, Opole, Poland. tomek672@poczta.onet.pl

Georgii KASIANOV, Doctor of Sciences in History, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. kasianov@irf.kiev.ua

Emilian KAVALSKI, Research Fellow, Department of European and International Studies, Loughborough University, UK. E.R.Kavalski@lboro.ac.uk

Adeeb KHALID, Associate Professor of History, Chair of History Department, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA. akhalid@carleton.edu

Galina KHIZRIEVA, Candidate of Sciences in History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. khizriyeva@yahoo.com

Francis KING, D.Phil., Researcher, School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Great Britain. f.king@uea.ac.uk

Svetlana MALYSHEVA, Professor, Department of History, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. Svetlana.Malicheva@soros.ksu.ru

Alla SALNIKOVA, Professor, Head of the Chair for Studies of Historiography and Historical Sources, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. aasalnikova@hotmail.com

Carmen SCHEIDE, Ph.D., Research Assistant, Historical Seminar, Basel University, Switzerland. Carmen.Scheide@unibas.ch

Viktor TAKI, Doctoral candidate, History Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. hphtav01@phd.ceu.hu

Olga TKACH, MA, Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Sociological Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia. tkach@indepsocres.spb.ru

Elena VISHLENKOVA, Professor of Russian History, Head of the Chair for Russian History before the 20th Century, Kazan State University, Russia. evishlenkova@mail.ru

Yfaat WEISS, Director of the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa, Israel. yfaatw@research.haifa.ac.il

Yael ZERUBAVEL, Director, Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. yaelzeru@rci.rutgers.edu

Elena ZDRAVOMYSLOVA, Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University in St. Petersburg; Coordinator of Gender Studies at the Center for Independent Sociological Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia. zdrav@eu.spb.ru

Magdalena ŻÓŁKOŚ, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. mz@ifs.ku.dk