Edith Sheffer is a historian of twentieth-century German Europe and a prize-winning author. Her book, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna was published in May 2018 with W. W. Norton. It investigates Hans Asperger’s creation of the autism diagnosis in the Third Reich, examining Nazi psychiatry's emphasis on social spirit and Asperger's involvement in the...
Professor of History, Naval Postgraduate School / Senior Fellow
Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate in modern history at Oxford, performed postdoctoral research at Harvard, and held a fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Professor Shore is a historian of international conflict whose research focuses on foreign policy decision making. His research interests include: 20th-Century International History, Late Modern Europe, Interwar Era Germany, Islam in...
Matthew Specter is an intellectual historian of modern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of two monographs: The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States(Stanford UP, 2022) and Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2010). Since 2014, he has served as Associate Editor of the leading international journal in the theory of history, History & Theory. A native of New York City, he was educated at Harvard, Brown (BA magna cum laude) and Duke, earning the Ph.D. in History from...
Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Philipp Trein earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2021, he is Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne. His research interests include comparative public policy and public administration (coordination and integration of policies, health policy, employment policy), policy and governance of digital transformations, and problem-solving in multilevel systems. In his current research, Philipp analyzes the politicization of e-government and artificial intelligence...
Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Agder Norway
Jarle Trondal is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, and at the University of Agder, Department of Political Science and Management, Norway. Trondal was previously Honorary Professor at University of Copenhagen and is currently affiliated to the European University Institute (EUI). He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Oslo, Department of Political Science (2001). Trondal research interests and research projects is focused on public policy and administration, organizational theory, international organizations,...