Václav Šmidrkal is a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor of history at Charles University in Prague.

Laurence Cole is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Für Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale Identität der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Tirols 1860–1914 (2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830–1870 (2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly.

Hannes Leidinger is head of the Vienna office of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War and lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna.

Rudolf Kučera is a permanent researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he is also a deputy research director. He has held fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Imre Kertész Kolleg at the University of Jena, and in 2015 he received the Otto Wichterle Prize for outstanding researchers under 35.