Gentjan (Genti) Skara is a lecturer of EU Law and Competition Law at the Department of Law, Bedër University College, Albania. He holds an LLB from University of Tirana (Albania), an MA in European Studies from Epoka University (Albania) and an LLM in "South East European Law and European Integration" from University of Graz. He received a PhD from the University of Ferrara in 2020. A revised version of it was published by Springer Nature as a monography titled "Europeanisation of Private Enforcement of Competition Law: The Case of Albania" in 2022. At the Institute for European Global Studies, Genti worked on a project titled "The Enforcement of Digital Markets Act and its compliance with Competition Law". In his project, he discussed the rationale and the necessity for the regulation of the digital technology development in the EU digital market. Moreover, the project analyzed the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act and its compliance with competition law, focusing on the need of competition policy, law and enforcement in the digital sphere. Genti's visiting fellowship is part of the thematic focus of the Katekisama program "Global Convergences: Cultures and Politics of AI in Globality Research".

Maumita Banerjee is a researcher at Waseda University (Japan). She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Waseda University. She is a historian of modern Asia, specializing in Japan and colonial India. Her work and research explore the comparative history of India and Japan through the lens of sartorial culture. Her research interests include dress politics, modern nationalism, gender, and material culture.
She has held visiting fellowships at Harvard Yenching Institute (USA) and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture (UK).

At the Institute for European Global Studies, Maumita Banerjee will be working on a project entitled "Assemblages and Global Flows: Sartorial Nationalism of Japanese and Indians, 1870s-1920s", in which she will be establishing a crucial link between sartorial politics and transnational political ideologies in Japan and India form the 1870s to the 1920s. Her visiting fellowship is part of the thematic focus of the Katekisama program "Global Crossings: Islands and Corridors, Life and Goods in Globality Research."

Vedran Duančić specializes in modern intellectual history and history of science, with a particular interest in the intersection of science and politics. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA from the Central European University (then still in Budapest). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and was awarded visiting fellowships at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg. His work on the involvement of geography in nation-building projects in interwar Yugoslavia resulted in the monograph Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). His research interests have shifted to the post-1945, socialist period, and he published on science popularization and the history of biology, including the reception of Lysenko’s ideas, in early socialist Yugoslavia.

At the Institute for Global European Studies, Dr. Duančić will be working on a history of medical cooperation within the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War, using socialist Yugoslavia as an entry point to a global network of circulation of medical knowledge, personnel, and equipment in light of post-colonial dependencies, national liberation and state-building efforts, global socialism, and contemporary developmental policies.

Polina Lukicheva studied Sinology, Art History and Philosophy in Moscow, Shanghai and Berlin. She holds a PhD in Comparative History of Science from the University of Zurich. Her Thesis is titled «‹Der Himmel hat von sich aus keine Ordnung des Vorne und des Hinten› — Studien zur Kategorie des Räumlichen in Erkenntnistheorie und Ästhetik im China des 17. Jahrhunderts». Polina Lukicheva joins Prof. Ralph Weber’s team in the research project on «European Studies in a Global Perspective». Her rese­arch focuses on European Studies in Russia and China.

Dr. Konstantin Zamyatin is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Zamyatin holds a law degree and did his PhD in Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University of Helsinki. His PhD thesis was about the official status of minority languages, based on the empirical case of Russia’s Finno-Ugric republics.

Konstantin Zamyatin’s current research interests are ethnic politics and language politics in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. He currently works on completing a monograph tentatively entitled «Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Post-Soviet Russia: Revisiting Revivalism».

During her fellowship at the Institute for European Global Studies and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, Lerato Posholi worked on her doctoral research on the entanglements of knowledge and power and their implications for the curriculum. In doing so, she contributed to Prof. Ralph Weber's research area European Global Knowledge Production.

Lerato Posholi stayed at the Institute for European Global Studies as a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour (REAL Centre) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her research focuses on curriculum studies, philosophy of education, epistemology and sociology of knowledge. For her MA research, Lerato Posholi looked at “The relationship between courage and philosophy in Plato’s Republic.”

Her fellowship at the Institute for European Global Studies and the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel was funded by the Oumou Dilly Foundation. Since November 2020, she is SNSF Fellow at the Institute in the research project "Reversing the Gaze".

Lucie Chamlian is a fellow at the Research Group on International Political Sociology at the University of Kiel (Germany). Her main research interests are: International Relations and Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, European Integration and IR-Sociology of Knowledge. She is the co-editor of a Special Issue on Foucault Meets EU Studies which appeared in Global Society. In Kiel, she also worked on a project on “Perception and Reception of Finitude”.

During her research stay at the Institute for European Global Studies Lucie Chamlian will work on “The problematisation of 'UK' dominance in knowledge-production in EU Studies.“

Dr. Divya Balan is an assistant professor of International Studies at the Department of Social Sciences of FLAME University in Pune, India. She is a Political Science graduate and has her Masters and M.Phil. in International Relations. She has received her Doctoral Degree in European Studies from the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Divya Balan has authored several articles in research journals, contributed chapters to books and monographs and has also presented research papers in numerous national/international conferences. Her research interests are in international and domestic migration, migration policy, Indian diaspora, diaspora politics, European integration, as well as the disciplinary histories of International Relations and European Studies.

As a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies, Divya Balan will be working on the topic «Teaching and Researching on European Studies in Indian Universities: A Participant Observation Approach to Understand the State of European Studies Outside Europe».

Prof. Dr. Toshiki Mogami (Ph.D. in Law, University of Tokyo) is Professor of International Law and Organization and taught for more than three decades at the International Christian University, Tokyo, where he was also Director of the Peace Research Institute and the Rotary Peace Center for many years. In the meantime, he was Visiting Researcher at Columbia University, New York, a private peace research institute in Sweden, and most recently at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He was also president of a few academic organizations in Japan.

His research covers a wide area of topics: most principally the law and institutions of the United Nations system, international security law, theory of international law, among others. Recently, he has been deepening his interest in the history of international law and of international organization. He has written a large number of books (all in Japanese) such as “International Organization” (de facto 4th ed.), “Humanitarian Intervention”, “The Age of International Constitutionalism” and quite a number of articles, including some book chapters written in English, such as “Perpetuum Mobile: Before and After Global Constitutionalism” (CUP, 2018), “Japan (and international law)” (OUP, 2019).

Dr. Julian Eckl is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include: global health governance, the society of states, diplomacy, public-private partnerships, and multilateral international organizations. He was trained as a political scientist but draws also on neighboring fields like ethnology/anthropology, history, and science and technology studies. From a methodological point of view, much of his recent research combines participant observation with the analysis of historical material. His main research project is a political ethnography of sites of global health governance; it investigates the way in which the participants try to deal with the practical challenges that this kind of political work entails.

During his stay in Basel, he will analyze empirical material that was collected in the course of this project. A particular focus will be on micro-practices of sovereignty and on the role of “Europe” in global health governance.

Dr. Andrea Rehling is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz and principal investigator for the research project "Knowledge of the World – Heritage of Mankind: The History of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage", funded by the Leibniz Competition of the Leibniz Association. In 2009, she received her doctoral degree with a thesis on German corporatism between 1880 and 1980 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim and a junior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Constance (Konstanz). At the Institute for European Global Studies, she is advancing her research and book project “UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage: Cosmopolitanization of Collective Memory”. The project takes the World Heritage Program governance institution as a prism to investigate the shifting of structures, institutions and actors, perceptions and agency. The multidisciplinary approaches, the focus on governance and the analysis of actors and agencies in global contexts make the Institute for European Global Studies a perfect environment for her research.

Rainer F. Buschmann, PhD, is Professor of History at the California State University Channel Islands, USA. At Channel Islands, he was a founding faculty member of the history program. His research interests include European perceptions of the Pacific Ocean, with in-depth analyses on the global histories of the world's oceans. He holds a doctoral degree in history and a master degree in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. In 2013, he started a new project focusing on Portugal and the Pacific ("Iberian Visions of the Pacific") while serving as a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Lisbon.

Nathan Marcus, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is specialized in Financial History, with a regional focus on Austria. He holds a doctoral degree in Modern European History at New York University, USA. At the Institute for European Global Studies, he initiated his research project “The Births of Schilling and Deutschmark: a Social and Financial History of Austrian and German Currency Reforms, 1945 – 1955”. Apart from Economic and Financial History, he is particularly interested in the History of Sports and Nationalism.

Jessica DeCou, PhD, holds a doctoral degree in theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, USA, and is specialized in the evolving relationship between religion and culture in the modern period. At the Institute for European Global Studies, she conducted research for her book “'A Fantastic Affair': Karl Barth in America, 1962,” which provides a chronicle of Barth's sole visit to the U.S. in 1962 while also reflecting on the changing landscape of religion in Western culture over the past half century.