Our Experts

Ry Moran is the associate university librarian for reconcilation at the University of Victoria. In his role, he leads efforts to decolonize the university’s archives and collections, including bringing new materials in that reflect Indigenous knowledge and history and organizing collections in a way that helps students and faculties access that information with ease. In September 2022, Ry launched a podcast Taapwaywin: Talking about what we know and what we believe to explore memory, power and the journey to find truth. […]

Dr. Hallensleben is an Associate professor at the University of British Colombia (UBC). He is an Executive Committee member of the UBC Center for Migration Studies; an affiliated faculty member of the UBC Institute for European Studies; and an Associate faculty member of the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.  His research interests focus on the regional area of Germany and include thematics such as: cultural studies; decolonial approaches; intercultural communication; literature studies; migration studies; and theatre, […]

Dr. Domańska is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Eastern Studies (OWS) within the Russian Department. She specializes in Russian domestic politics, with a focus on federal and regional elites, formal and informal aspects of the Russian political system, state propaganda, politics of memory, domestic determinants of the Kremlin’s foreign policy. Between 2006–2015 , Dr.  Domańska worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (including as the Head of Political Section in the Embassy of Poland in Moscow between 2012–2015). […]

Dr. Stone is a Professor at the University of Winnipeg within the Department of History. His Research Interests include Eastern European History, Jewish History and World History.  

Dr. Muller is a Professor within the Department of English, Theatre, Film and Media at the University of Manitoba. He is also the director of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the University of Manitoba. In addition to co-editing a collection of essays on cultural genocide, Dr. Muller is currently co-directing the Embodying Empathy project, which gathers together survivors, scholars, and private-sector tech professionals to create a digitally immersive Canadian Indian Residential School. He specializes in: Representations of War; […]

Dr. Całus is a senior fellow at the Center for Eastern Studies (OSW) within the Department for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. He is a graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Eastern Europe and Asia Studies and Journalism and Social Communication) and a PhD candidate in the Institute of Eastern Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University. Dr. Całus is a regular contributor to the Nowa Europa Wschodnia bimonthly and an editor of the “Spojrzenie na Wschód” quarterly. Research interests: domestic, […]

Dr. Torne is an Associate Professor International Public Law and Transitional Justice at Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull.  He received his PhD in International Relations in 2017 from the Universitat Autònoma De Barcelona. He is currently also part of a research project at the Institute for Research in Communication and International Relations focusing on: globalization, conflicts, security and development.  

Dr. Schroeder is an Associate Professor at the University of Fraser Valley within the Department of History. He is also the Teaching Chair in the Peace and Conflict Studies program.  Dr. Schroeder additionally coordinates the community engagement component of the peace program, in which Peace and Conflict Studies students apply peacebuilding skills in conflict transformation and reconciliatory work in the community. With a regional interest in modern Europe, particularly in Germany, Dr. Schroeder’s research focuses on the root causes of oppression […]

Heidemeyer studied medieval and modern history, political science, and economics at the universities of Passau and Munich. From 2003 to 2005 he was the first scientific director to set up the Marienfelde Refugee Center Memorial . From 2008 to 2019 he was head of the department for education and research in the Stasi Records Authority . Until 2012 he was a staff member of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties . As of June 2019, Heidemeyer is the head of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation.

Dr. Soroka is a Lecturer on Government and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. He is presently working on several long-term research projects, including a book examining how the politics of history are used by the Kremlin to justify its present-day foreign policy stances toward Ukraine, Poland and the European Union. Research interests: Post-communist politics (focusing on Russia, Poland and Ukraine) Politics of history and moral justifications for political action Religion and politics (esp. comparing United States and […]

Dr. Siomonn Pulla is a scholar, writer, educator and practitioner at Royal Roads University, Canada. He is committed to innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching, with an emphasis on seeking solutions to real world issues. His primary focus is on participatory and collaborative research, corporate-Indigenous relations and new and emerging learning systems. Before joining Royal Roads in 2013, Pulla was a senior research associate with the Conference Board of Canada – Centre for the North for two years. He was director […]

Dr. Brigitte Kather is a long-time employee of the “German Resistance Memorial Center,” working as a lecturer and teacher. A life-long academic and a pedagogue, she has gained a wide range of experience in how memory skills can be taught. She is currently the principal of the Paula-Fürst-Schule in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Bernd Scherer is an author and philosopher. Since 2006 he has served as director of the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany. His curatorial approach consists in the interweaving of art, science, politics and technology, and the examination of transformation processes in contemporary societies and postcolonial structures. Scherer came to the HKW from the Goethe-Institut, as from 1989-1994 he was Director of the Goethe-Institute Karachi and Lahore; from 1999-2000 he directed the Goethe-Institut Mexico City; after this he […]

Ambassador James Bindenagel is a retired U.S. career diplomat who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 as Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. He also served as Special U.S. Negotiator for “Conflict Diamonds.” More recently, he was Vice-President of DePaul University in Chicago, and from 2014 to 2019, he served as the founding Henry Kissinger Professor for security and governance at Bonn University, Germany. In 2016, he established the International Security Forum at Bonn University, which has […]

Henrik Jacobsen is a PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). He is holding an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and a BA in International Politics & History from Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany). He is specialising in the study of executive government and urban politics. Henrik’s research in this area is part of a collaborative project with the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. 

Ann-Kathrin McLean is currently a Doctor of Social Sciences candidate at Royal Roads University (RRU), Victoria, BC, Canada, in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies. Ann-Kathrin holds a MA degree in Tourism Management from RRU. Ann-Kathrin is an associate faculty member in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and program associate for the MA in Tourism Management at RRU. With a particular focus on interactive and engaging learning activities and challenges, Ann-Kathrin brings a facilitative approach to her teaching. Her […]