Committees & Councils

Please find below a list of all the current ESEH committees and councils and their members.

ESEH 2027 Programme Committee

Žiga Zwitter (chair), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sebastian Haumann (liaison to the LOC), Salzburg University, Austria
Simone Gingrich, BOKU Vienna, Austria
Nina Vieira, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Dominik Collet, University of Oslo, Norway
Iva Lučić, Stockholm University, Sweden

Grants Committee

Martin Meiske (chair), TU Berlin, Germany
Nils Güttler, University of Vienna, Austria
Anna Olenenko, University of Alberta, Canada

Communication Committee

Jonatan Palmblad (chair), Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Germany
Nina Vieira, Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal
Gilberto Mazzoli, University of Konstanz, Germany
Roberta Biasillo, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kristian Mennen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Onur Inal, University of Vienna, Austria

Conference Venue Selection Committee

Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University, Sweden
Omer Aloni, University of Haifa, Israel
Viktor Pál, University of Ostrava, Czechia

Nomination Committee

Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia
Marco Armiero, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Stefan Dorondel, Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest, Romania

Summer School Committee

Robert Groß (chair), University of Vienna, Austria
Monica Vasile, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Katharina Scharf, University of Graz, Austria
Anna Varga, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

Tallinn Dissertation Prize Committee

Marta Tomczok (chair), University of Silesia, Poland
Etienne Dufour, Laboratoire Géographie-cités, France
Nike Wikström Stolpe, Stockholm University, Sweden
Mona Bieling, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Debjani Bhattacharyya, University of Zürich, Switzerland

St. Andrews Article Prize Committee

Holly Fletcher, University College London, UK
Claire Sabel, University of Vienna, Austria
George Vlachos, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece

Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History Committee

Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University, USA
Chanelle Adams, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Turku Prize Committee

Netta Cohen, New Israel Fund, UK
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, independent scholar, Germany
Katia Occhi, FBK, Italian-German Historical Institute, Italy
Santiago Gorostiza, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Marie Jaros, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany

Financial Control Committee

Charles-Francois Mathis, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Sebastian Haumann, Salzburg University, Austria

Council of Regional Representatives

Anastasia Fedotova, Russia – Russia
Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia – Australasia
Anna Olenenko (chair), University of Alberta, Canada – Ukraine
Anna Varga, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia – Hungary
Ben Anderson, Keele University, UK; Clare Hickman, Newcastle University, UK – Britain and Ireland
Cosmin Koszor-Codrea, New European College, Romania – Romania
Doubravka Olšáková, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czechia – Czechia and Slovakia
Elle-Mari Talivee, Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia – Baltic states
Elsa Devienne, Northumbria University, UK – France
George L. Vlachos, National Hellenic Research Foundation / National Kapodistrian University of Athens – Greece
Giacomo Bonan, University of Torino, Italy – Italy
Marta Tomczok, University of Silesia, Poland – Poland
Mehmet Kentel, Leiden University, The Netherlands – Turkey
Muchaparara Musemwa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa – South Africa
Nina Vieira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal – Portugal
Omer Aloni, University of Haifa, Israel – Israel
Petar Todorov, Univerzitet “Sv. Kiril i Metodij”, North Macedonia – North Macedonia
Robert Groß, University of Vienna, Austria; Katharina Scharf, University of Graz, Austria – German speaking countries
Santiago Gorostiza, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain – Spain
Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Nordic countries
Simone Schleper, Maastricht University, The Netherlands – Benelux countries
Žiga Zwitter, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia – Dinaric Region