Maria Falina Editor & Author

Judith Devlin is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Dublin. She studied in Dublin, Paris and Oxford, has written monographs on French history and post-Soviet Russia, including The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in Nineteenth Century France (1987) and Slavophiles and Commissars: Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia (1999); co-edited three books on European history, including with Christoph Muller, War of Words: Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe (2013); and written eighteen articles and book chapters mainly on Soviet political culture, in particular the Stalin cult. Maria Falina is Lecturer in Modern European History at Dublin City University, Ireland. Prior to taking up the current post in 2016 she spent three years at University College Dublin as a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher. She obtained a PhD in Comparative History from Central European University, Budapest in 2011. Her main fields of interest are intellectual history, history of political thought, nationalism, and history of religion and politics in Eastern Europe. She co-authored with Balazs Trencsenyi, Maciej Janowski, Monika Baar, and Michal Kopecek A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the `Long Nineteenth Century’ (2016) and Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the `Short Twentieth Century’ and Beyond (forthcoming in 2018). Her current research project focuses on the relationship between politics, religion and nationalism in inter-war Yugoslavia. John Paul Newman is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-century European History at National University of Ireland Maynooth. He is the author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903 – 1945 (2015), and the co-editor (with Mark Cornwall) of Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (2016) and (with Julia Eichenberg) The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism (2013). Until September 2011, he was an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the project `Paramilitary Violence after the Great War’, to which he contributed a case study of violence in the Balkans.