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Maria Couroucli is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is a social anthropologist working on contemporary Greece and has published on family, nationalism, identity, memory, and religious practices. She has coedited with Dionigi Albera Shared Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean. Christians, Muslims and Jews in Shrines and Sanctuaries (Indiana University Press, 2012) and with Tchavdar Marinov Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture (Ashgate, 2015).

Seán Damer is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include World War II and the resistance in Greece, as well as the mountain peasantry of Crete. He is the author of From Moorepark to "Wine Alley": The Rise and Fall of a Glasgow Housing Scheme (Edinburgh University Press, 1989) and Glasgow: Going for a Song (Lawrence and Wishart, 2000).

Nicholas Doumanis teaches history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (Macmillan, 1997), Italy (Oxford University Press, 2001), A History of Greece (Palgrave, 2009), and Before the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2013), and he most recently edited The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914–1945 (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is working on a long diachronic study of the Eastern Mediterranean and writing with Antonis Liakos a volume in The Edinburgh History of the Greeks series that deals with the period from 1912 to the present.

Evdoxios Doxiadis is Assistant Professor in History at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of The Shackles of Modernity: Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State (2011) and works on questions of state building, minorities, and women's history.

Ian Frazer is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago. His current research interests include [End Page 239] escape and evasion amongst Allied soldiers in wartime Crete, as well as the history of SOE Crete. His most recent publication, coauthored with Mike Sweet, is James de Mole Carstairs: Escape from Crete (Society for Cretan Historical Studies, 2016).

Violetta Hionidou teaches History at Newcastle University. Her research interests are in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Greece, with a focus on historical demography, history of medicine, history of the family, famines, and oral history. She is the author of Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941–1944 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and cowinner of the 2007 Edmund Keely book award. She has published articles in a wide range of journals, including Population Studies, Journal of Family History, Social History of Medicine, Medical History, and Continuity and Change. She is finishing a book on oral histories of the Greek famine of the early 1940s. She is also working on a monograph on birth control in Modern Greece.

David Idol is a PhD candidate in Modern European History at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on rural society, commercial agriculture, and environmental change in Modern Greece.

Evangelia Kindinger teaches American Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Homebound: Diaspora Spaces and Selves in Greek American Return Narratives (Winter, 2015) and coeditor of After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina (transcript, 2015). She has published articles on fat studies, reality television, American literature, and film. She is currently working on critical whiteness studies, intersectionality, and the American South.

Ageliki Lefkaditou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo and curator of the exhibition FOLK at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. She is writing on the history of physical anthropology, race, and racism from the late nineteenth century to the present with a specific focus on Greece. Her research interests include the history of science and the development of museum theory, methods, and practices, as well as science communication. She has recently published "Observations on Race and Racism in Greece" (2017) in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences (doi 10.4436/ JASS.95013). [End Page 240]

Alexander Nehamas is Carpenter Professor in the Humanities at Prince ton University. He is interested in ancient philosophy, philosophy of art, and Nietzsche. His most recent book is On Friendship (Basic Books, 2016).

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