History Experts
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Republic
Vitezslav Sommer received his PhD from Charles University, Prague in 2011. His dissertation explored the origins of communist party historiography in Czechoslovakia and its development in the Stalinist, post-Stalinist and reform communist period (1950–1970). He is at present a post-doctoral researcher at the Sciences Po in Paris (ERC project ‘A political history of the future: kno...
Director, Center of World History Studies, School of History and Culture, Shanxi University, China
Research Staff Member with the Institute for Defense Analyses, Joint Advanced Warfighting Division
Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin
Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a joint appointment at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. For the las...
Fulbright Scholar; Visiting Professor, Mongolian International University of Science and Technology, School of Industrial Technology and Design, Mongolia
ExpertiseKorea; Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; Mongolia; Albania; former Soviet Union
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
A professor with expertise in the Balkans and Turkey, Dr. Frances Trix has been working in Turkey since the 1970s, and in Kosovo since the late 1980s. Fluent in Turkish, Albanian, and colloquial Arabic, Dr. Trix has specialized in Muslim communities: Muslim immigrant communities in North America, Muslims in Kosovo and Macedonia, and Balkan Muslim immigrants in Turkey. Frances lived in Kosovo when...