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Born in 1955, in Hong Kong, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia became a US citizen in 1980. In addition to studies at Swarthmore, Harvard, and Yale, he became acquainted with Germany over a twenty-year period, first as a student in Münster in…

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended the University of Wisconsin as an East Asian Studies major, dropped out, and eventually finished a degree as an English major at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.…

Betsy Jolas, a dual citizen of the United States and France, was born in Paris in 1926. She received her BA from Bennington College in 1946. At the same time, she sang in the Dessof Choir in New York, which…

Milad Douehi is the Chair of Digital Cultures at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. Prior her served as the Directeur d'Études Associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His first book, A Peverse History of the…

Michael Meltsner began his career as counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1960s and then taught at the Columbia Law School. In the 1980s he served as dean of the Northeastern Law School, where he is currently…

Ruth Mandel received her PhD from the University of Chicago; her doctoral research focused on Turkish migration to Berlin. Over the past several years she has conducted research in Central Asia, and has carried out a long-term project on media…

Karen Painter is on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, as an associate professor in the School of Music and a faculty associate in Jewish Studies and at the Center for European Studies. She writes on the history of…

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He was reared in Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts,…

Margarita Tupitsyn earned her PhD in art history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has worked as guest curator for institutions such as Queens Museum in New York, Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Guggenheim Museum,…

Jeremy King is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. He completed his PhD with honors at Columbia University in 1998, with a dissertation entitled "Loyalty and Polity, Nation and State. A Town in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1948."…