Dr Nadiya Kiss is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the University of Erfurt. Previously, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Giessen Center for the East European Studies of the Justus Liebig University and as Associate Professor of Ukrainian Language at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Kiss is a co-founder of the research network "Vision Ukraine: Education, Language, Migration." Her previous book includes "Together We Are Power!" The Rhetoric of Ukrainian Resistance (Klio 2015, in Ukrainian). Her papers have been published in, among others, Cognitive Studies, European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language and Diversity, as well as the European Dictionary of Philosophies and Ukrainian Decolonial Glossary.

Dr Monika Wingender is Professor for Slavic Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Since 2006, she is also Managing Director of the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies (GiZo). Wingender was, among others, principal investigator for two Volkswagen Foundation projects on bi-/multilingualism and contested language diversity in Eastern Europe. Out of this, emerged her co-edited collected volume Language Politics, Language Situations and Conflicts in Multilingual Societies: Case Studies from Contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Harrassowitz 2021). Wingender's papers have been published in, among others, Die Welt der Slaven, Sotsiolingvistika, European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Osteuropa, as well as collected volumes and handbooks.