Maud graduated with a BA in Italian and Portuguese studies from University College London. During this time, she focused on the representation of Italian Fascism in popular historical fiction, as well as on the social impact of segregations in Lisbon’s urban landscape. For her postgraduate studies, she is interested in the creative processes afforded by the discipline of public history, especially the ways in which different artistic mediums can interact with history. Maud is currently developing a project that will focus on graffiti as a form of counter-monument that challenges dominant historical narratives in urban spaces. 

Heidi graduated from Northwestern University in 2010 with a BA in History and International Studies. For the past thirteen years, she has worked in the international humanitarian aid and development field, initially working with refugees resettling to Chicago and then working in program design, implementation, and management in South Sudan, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Heidi believes that historians have a critical role to play as conveners of inclusionary dialogue to foster creative solutions to today’s problems. Through the HIPS program, she desires to reconceptualize her experiences and use history to promote human rights in practice.  

Reika graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Language and Area Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.  Her undergraduate thesis examined marriage and family policy in the Soviet Union from the post-revolutionary period to Stalinist regime.  During her undergraduate studies, she stayed in Almaty, Kazakhstan as an exchange student at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.  She also worked for women’s rights as a member of Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center Youth Group, Women’s March Tokyo, and Parité Campaign.  She is currently interested in socialist feminist theory and gender relations within families under communist and post-communist periods. 

Kateryna graduated with honors from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies. For her BA thesis, she focused on the transformations of memory in the urban space of Ukraine from 1991 to 2022 through a decolonial perspective. Throughout her studies, Kateryna founded and curated a poetry club at the NAUKMA and worked as a guide and developer of the IWalk interactive historical guided tours in Kyiv. She has also worked as an educator at the Tolerspace NGO, where she assisted in the training of the IWalk guides and workshops on memory in urban space, and as a research team coordinator for the Stumbling Stones project in Kyiv. Kateryna is an editor and regular contributor to Visible Ukraine, an interdisciplinary journal in humanities and social sciences created by the participants of the Invisible University for Ukraine program. Kateryna’s research interests include memory studies, oral history, digital humanities, postcolonial theory, and decolonization. 

Ruth graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from University College London. Since graduating, she has worked as a photographer and digital media executive, volunteered in hostels across Europe, and interned in the photographic department of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Her research interests include environmental history, museology, cultural memory and visual studies. She plans to examine the visual materials produced in response to man-made disasters, and investigate how environmental catastrophes are interculturally represented, contested, and brought to light in the public sphere.