ERIN K. JENNE is an Associate Professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her book Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in 2007 for making an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. In addition to numerous book chapters, she has published articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, and Regional and Federal Studies. She has received doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Dr. Jenne is currently completing a book project funded by a Carnegie Corporation Scholarship that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe to develop a theory of successful conflict management that extend over time and across cases.

R. WILLIAM AYRES is Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at Wright State University. He has published articles on ethnic conflict and conflict resolution in Journal of Peace Research, International Politics, and International Interactions, and has co-authored works on irredentism and ethnic secession with fellow ENMISA member Stephen Saideman, including articles in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Journal of Politics, and a book, For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War (Columbia University Press, 2008). He is also a member of the editorial board of Ethnopolitics

KAMAL SADIQ (Ph.D, The University of Chicago) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine. He specializes in Citizenship; Immigration; Human Trafficking; International Illegal Flows; Weak States; Security in Developing Countries; International Relations. His regional expertise is in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) and Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Southern Philippines). He has received several prestigious fellowships including the Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Grant, the 2007-2008 Social Science Assistant Professor Research Award for Excellence at UCI, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Chicago’s Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, and the University of Chicago’s Council on Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship (MacArthur). His book Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries (New York: Oxford University Press, hardcover 2009, paperback 2010) is an Oxford bestseller. His articles have appeared in leading journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Asian Perspectives, PS: Political Science and Politics, and in prestigious edited volumes by Yale University Press, Johns Hopkins Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Routledge.

NUKHET A. SANDAL is a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her research interests include religion and international affairs, nationalism and politics of divided societies. She has served as the ENMISA Communications Chair and ENMISA Secretary multiple times. She has also served as an editor of the ENMISA volume of the ISA Compendium Project and her articles have been published in European Journal of International Relations, Alternatives, Review of International Studies and Canadian Journal of Political Science.

NADEJDA (NADIA) MARINOVA is a College Postdoctoral Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from USC, where her dissertation developed a theoretical model of how host governments utilize diasporas to advance their foreign policy agendas. Her research interests include diaspora and migration, Middle East politics, ethnic lobbies in foreign policy, and human trafficking. She has served as a fellow of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, and her work has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis and as part of George Mason University’s Global Migration and Transnational Politics series.

ANA MARGHERITIS (PhD, University of Toronto) is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Latin American Politics at University of Florida at Gainesville. She was Neil Allen Visiting Chair of Latin American Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, during 2000-2002, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University in 2002-2003, and Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and University of California at San Diego in 2000. Her research interests are in foreign policy, international migration, Inter-American Relations, and comparative regional integration. Her recent works on transnational migration developed while visiting at CERI at Sciences Po; CEACS at Juan March Institute; FLACSO, Ecuador, and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina - the results are published in International Political Sociology (2011), Journal of European Public Policy (2007) and Global Networks, A Transnational Affairs Journal (2007).

MARY FRANCES LEBAMOFF is a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at Loyola University Chicago, where she earned her M.A. in Comparative and International Politics in December 2005. Her areas of focus are conflict resolution and management (especially in Eastern Europe), preventive diplomacy, and international organizations and security. She is presently developing her dissertation, which examines organizational learning and decision-making related to preventive deployment and “lessons learned”, in at attempt to more fully explain why there has been no other UN mission of this type since UNPREDEP. She is Assistant Academic Director of Political Science at University of Maryland University College.

MATTEO FUMAGALLI (PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2005) is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University in Budapest (Hungary). Matteo's interests are in comparative politics, especially with regard to ethnicity, nationalism and migration in post-communist Eurasia. Matteo's articles have been published in the 'International Political Science Review', 'Europe-Asia Studies', 'Ethnopolitics' and 'Central Asian Survey'. He is currently working on the forms and strategies of social activism in authoritarian states, and on transnational migration across the former Soviet Union. Matteo has been the recipient of several grants from various organizations including the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, and the UK Political Studies Association. He is currently working on a manuscript on conflict, ethnicity and patronage in post-Soviet Central Asia.

IDEAN SALEHYAN is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.  His research interests include international migration, refugees, conflict studies, and human rights.  Idean has been a visiting scholar at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo; the University of Essex, UK; and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.  He has won the ISA's Carl Beck Award, the Dina Zinnes Award, and was second place for the Martin O. Heisler Award.  He is the author of Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics, Cornell University Press.  His work has been published in journals such as, the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and Political Research Quarterly.

STEPHEN DEETS is currently an Associate Professor of Politics at Babson College. Since receiving his Ph.D. from University of Maryland, where he worked with Martin Heisler and Ted Gurr, he has published a wide variety of articles dealing with post-communism and minority politics, including on the development of European minority norms, the Hungarian Status Law, and health care reform in Bosnia. Currently he is working on a book project on non-territorial governance in Europe and a smaller project on confessionalism and social welfare in Lebanon. He is on the Editorial Board of Ethnopolitics , and this past year he was Chair of ENMISA's Martin Heisler Award Committee.

JOSEPHINE SQUIRES has been an active member of ISA for almost twenty years and is a founding member of ENMISA.  She currently holds the position of Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics at Fort Hays State University. Her fields of interest include Nationalism, Religion, Ethnicity and their relationship to group identity; Comparative Immigration Policies, Identities, Issues of Human Rights and Religion and Ethnicity.