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Árpád von Klimó Editor & Author

Irina Livezeanu is Associate Professor of modern European history at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her research has focused on culture and politics in twentieth-century Romania and Moldova. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930 (1995). Her articles have appeared in Soviet Studies, Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch, Austrian History Yearbook, East European Politics & Societies, and La Nouvelle Alternative, among others. Her essays have been published in collective volumes in France, Romania, Britain, and the USA. She is past president of the Society for Romanian Studies, and co-editor of the Studii Româneşti/Romanian Studies/Études Roumaines/Rumänische Studien book series at Polirom in Iaşi, Romania.

Árpád von Klimó is Associate Professor of History at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, USA. His courses cover Modern Europe since 1789 and the History of Catholicism in the Global Age. He has published and conducted extensive research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungarian, Italian and German social history. Recently, he also completed a monograph on the memory of World War II and the Holocaust in Hungary, focusing on the Novi Sad massacre of 1942 (Remembering Cold Days, 2017). His current project is on world-wide Catholicism and Anti-Communism during the second half of the 1970s, focusing on the figure of Cardinal József Mindszenty.