About the Author

Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His monographs include "Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and ""Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848 1918" (2007) and "The Politics of Language ""and Nationalisms in Modern Central Europe "(2009).
Motoki Nomachi is Associate Professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He wrote and edited "The Grammar of Possessivity in South Slavic: ""Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives" (2011), "Slavia Islamica: Language, Religion and ""Identity" (2011, with Robert Greenberg) and "Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in the ""Slavic Languages" (2014, with Andrii Danylenko and Predrag Piper).
Catherine Gibson is currently completing an Erasmus International MA at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom, and the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focuses on transnational history and ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Baltic states.
Contributors to this volume include: Andrej Beke, University of Tsukuba, Japan Wayles Browne, Cornell University, USA Andrii Danylenko, Pace University, USA Istvan Fried, University of Szeged, Hungary Catherine Gibson, University College London, UK Robert Greenberg, Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University, USA Tomasz Kamusella, University of St Andrews, UK Keith Langston, University of Georgia, USA Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki, Finland Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, Canada Roland Marti, University of the Saarland, Germany Elena Marushiakova, Independent Scholar Vesselin Popov, Independent Scholar Alexander Maxwell, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand Michael A. Moser, University of Vienna, Austria Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Anna Novikov-Almagor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Anita Peti-Stanti?, University of Zagreb, Croatia Irina Sedakova, Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Sarah Smyth, Independent Scholar Dieter Stern, Ghent University, Belgium Klaus Steinke, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Paul Wexler, Tel-Aviv University, Israel"