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Notes on Contributors

Zoltán Bretter is Associate Professor at Pécs University, Hungary, Department of Political ­Science and International Studies. He studied at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj- Napoca, Romania, received his M.A. degree in philosophy (1984) and sociology (1987) from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and earned his Ph.D. from the same university (2002). He served as member of the Hungarian Parliament be- tween 1990 and 1998. He was the director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Bucharest (2008–2012). His latest publications include “Rumänien und Un- garn” in Europaeische Rundschau (2019/3) and “Cultural Trauma – The Case of the Winner”, in Politics in Central Europe (2019).

Ivan Damjanovski is associate professor at the political science department of the Law Faculty “Justinian i” – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. His research interests in- clude Europeanisation of candidate countries, EU enlargement, EU integra- tion theory and ethnic identity politics.

Sasho Georgievski is Professor at the University Cyril and Menthodius, Law School, Skopje (North Macedonia). He holds courses in International public law, EU law, Theories of EU integration and EU law. He participated as expert or coordinator in several international projects, such as the regional research project “European Union Law Application by the National Courts of the EU Membership Aspirant Coun- tries from South-East Europe”, supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Interna- tionale Zusammenarbeit (giz) – Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe Legal Reform (2013–2014).

Mišo Kapetanović is an international postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of St. Gallen. He received a BA degree in philosophy and sociology from the University of Banja Luka (2008), a joint master’s de- gree in global studies from the University of Vienna and University of Leipzig (2010), and a PhD degree in Balkan Studies at the University of Ljubljana (2017). He worked as outreach workers for hard-to-reach social groups such

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102 Notes on Contributors as sex workers and registered civil victims from the war 1992–1995 in Croatia (Documenta, 2012). He published several journal articles and book chapters dealing with contemporary working-class culture, informal construction, labor migration (gastarbajteri), popular music and queer audiences, and vernacular commemoration practices. His postdoctoral research project at the University of St.Gallen explores how labor migrants from former Yugoslavia use mobili- ties to construct spaces and new forms of belonging.

Sandra King-Savic received her Ph.D. in Organization and Culture (doc) at the University of St. Gallen (hsg) in February 2019, where she presently serves as a Postdoc at the School for Social Sciences and Humanities (shss). King-Savic is a lecturer on migration and cultural studies, and Executive Director at the Center for Gover- nance and Culture in Europe (gce) at the University of St. Gallen. She volun- teered as a human rights educator for Amnesty International and conducted open source research for the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, at the University of Kansas before receiving a Swiss National Foundation (snf) scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between mi- gration and informal markets (forthcoming in 2020, Routledge). She received various grants, including the Foreign Language Area Studies (flas) and the A&S Study Abroad scholarship from the University of Kansas (ku) and the University of Wyoming (uwyo), where she received her M.A. (2012) and B.A., (2010) respectively. King-Savic examines how labor migrants and refugees from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia define their experience with de- servingness of ‘integration’ in Switzerland.

Nenad Markovikj is associate professor and head of the political science department of the Law Faculty “Justinian i” – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. He is founder and a senior researcher at the Skopje-based think tank, the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” (idscs). From 2016 to 2018, he was the president of the Mace- donian Political Science Association (mpsa) and one of the founders of the Balkan Political Science Association (bpsa).

Irena Rajchinovska Pandeva is Associate Professor at the University Cyril and Menthodius, Law School, Skopje (North Macedonia). Her research interests include International His- tory and Politics, Conflict Processes and Comparative Politics, Identities and European integration.

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