Dr. Hagen Schulz-Forberg is associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

His research interests focus on transnational conceptual history and European history.

He is currently participating in the research project ‘Political History of Anti-politics and Populism in Europe’.

Recent publications include work in the fields of transnational history, global history, intellectual history, European history, European integration, travel and tourism, historiography, and cultural history. His latest monograph (2010), co-authored with Bo Stråth, entitled The Political History of European Integration. The Hypocrisy of Democracy-through-market, London, Routledge, was short-listed for the European Book Prize 2011.

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political History.

Prof. Dr. Lucy Riall is Professor of Comparative History of Europe (19th and 20th centuries) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Her field of research is modern European history, with a special interest for Risorgimento Italy, nationalism and nation-building, and 19th- and early 20th-century European colonialism.

Her latest publications include Italian Sexualities Uncovered. The Long Nineteenth Century (London, Palgrave, 2015; with V. Babini and C. Beccalossi) and Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013; Italian translation: La Rivolta. Bronte 1860 (Rome & Bari, Laterza, 2012)).