We are pleased to announce that Dr. Athena S. Leoussi, Dr. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong and Dr. Joanna Beata Michlic have been appointed as the new Editors-in-Chief of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).

Dr. Athena S. Leoussi

Dr. Athena S. Leoussi (Licence de Sociologie, Grenoble, France; MPhil, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK; PhD, LSE, UK) is an art historian and social scientist. She is an Associate Professor in European History in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the University of Reading, UK. She is known for her publications on nationalism and the classical tradition in nineteenth-century Europe. She is also known for her publications on the classical body, and the exhibition that she initiated and co-curated at the British Museum, ‘Defining Beauty’ (2015). She is a Founding Chair (1992) of The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism that was founded at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently a member of ASEN's Steering Committee and a Founding Editor (1994) and continuing editor of the journal, Nations and Nationalism. She has been Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Government, LSE, UK (2008–2012), is a Fellow of the Panteion University of Athens, Greece, and her research has received funding from the Greek government, the Hellenic Foundation, and the Irving Louis Horowitz Foundation (USA). Her book publications include Nationalism and Classicism: The Classical Body as National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France (1998), Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (2001), The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present (co-ed. with Allon Gal and Anthony D. Smith, 2010), Nationality and Nationalism (4 vols, co-ed. with Steven Grosby, 2003), Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations (co-ed. with Steven Grosby, 2006), and Famous Battles and How they Shaped the Modern World (2 vols, co-ed. with Beatrice Heuser, 2018). She is currently working on a book on the art and architecture of national parliaments in Europe.

Prof. Dr. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong

Prof. Dr. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong is a Mexican sociologist who graduated from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM; MSc and received her PhD from the London School of Economics, University of London, UK. She is a full-time researcher and professor at the Institute of Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

She has researched extensively on Indigenous peoples and nation building, stateless nationalisms, and ethnic autonomies. She has formed and coordinated research projects that are pioneering in Mexico and abroad, of which her studies on indigenous intellectuals, women and nation, trafficking in women, and racism stand out. Her research began in 1983 in the People's Republic of China, and later in Bolivia, Ecuador, England, and Mexico. She has received funding from Mexico, PRC, Spain, and the European Union.

Her most recent research can be found in the online database on the political culture of ethnic minorities and ethnic conflicts in the Americas (www.sicetno.org) and her work on youth identities and inequalities with an intersectional approach (https://juventidades.sociales.unam.mx).

She was editorial director of the Revista Mexicana de Sociología (2001–2007) and is a member of several editorial committees, including Nations and Nationalism, Fronteiras, and the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

She is the author of 7 books as sole author, 4 with other authors, 6 as coordinator, 21 refereed articles, and 49 book chapters. Some of her publications include the following: Ethnicity and Conflict in the Americas, Volume I and II, 2013; Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities. Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State, 2nd edition, English edition Nebraska University Press, 1999; The words that slept in me: indigenous discourses from Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Mexico, 2019; Being Indigenous in Mexico. Roots and Rights, 2015. Cultures Today, 2019.

Dr. Joanna Beata Michlic

Dr. Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian, and founder and first Director of the HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide, UCL Institute for Advanced Studies, an Honorary Senior Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) in London, and Research Fellow at Weiss-Livnat International Centre for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa, June 2019–May 2022. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Poland and East European Jews, the Holocaust and its memory in Europe, East European Jewish childhood, rescue and rescuers of Jews in East-Central Europe, and antisemitism, racism, and nationalism in Europe.

She is the author of 5 books and more than 60 articles. Her most important publications are Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky), Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, (translated into Polish in 2015 and nominated for the Best History Book of Kazimierz Moczarski Award 2016 in Poland); Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012), a singled co-edited Jewish Family 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory, Brandeis University Press/NEUP, January 2017), which was included in the Ethical Inquiry list of the best books published in 2017 at Brandeis University (http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/ethicalinquiry/2017/December.html), and Piętno Zagłady. Wojenna i powojenna historia oraz pamięć żydowskich dzieci ocalałych w Polsce (ZIH, Dec. 2020). Her forthcoming publication is Lessons from the Holocaust: History and (Self)-Representations of Jewish Child Survivors (NUP, 2021). She is currently working on a book project on the history and memory of the rescue of Jews in Poland, More Than The Milk Of Human Kindness: Jewish Survivors and Their Polish Rescuers Recount Their Tales, 1944-1949, supported by the Gerda Henkel Fellowship.