Guest editors: Felix Ackermann is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. He teaches historical anthropology and applied humanities as a visiting associate professor at European Humanities University (Vilnius). His recent publications focus on the link between state violence, migration, and urban space in the post-Soviet borderlands of Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland.

Mark Berman is a graduate student at the University of Giessen. He completed his M.A. in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service.

Olga Sasunkevich is an assistant professor in gender studies at the University of Gothenburg. She obtained her doctoral degree in Eastern European history from Greifswald University in 2014 and her master of sociology with specialization in gender studies from the European Humanities University (Vilnius) in 2008. She is the author of Informal Trade, Gender, and the Border Experience: From Political Borders to Social Boundaries (2015). She is currently finalizing her research project “De-essentializing Ethnicity: ‘Karta Polaka’ and the Process of Ethnicization in the Belarus–Poland Border Region.” Her next project is dedicated to feminist and LGBTQ activism in contemporary Russia.