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628 Contributors Anelia Kassabova, anclia.kasabova@abv.bg PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1996) and DPhil of the University of Vienna (2001), associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Kassabova’s research focuses on the history of ethnology, the history of social work, family research, and visual anthropology. Karl Kaser, karl.kaser@uni-graz.at PhD, professor for southeast European history and anthropology at University of Graz, Austria, where Kaser was appointed to full professor in 1996. His major work and research projects have focused on historical-anthropological fields such as history of family, kinship, clientelism and gender relations in the Balkans, and visual cultures. Among his most recent monographic books are Patriarchy After Patriarchy. Gender Relations in Turkey and in the Balkans (2008), The Balkans and the Near East. Introduction to a Shared History (2011) and Andere Blicke. Religionen und visuelle Kulturen auf dem Balkan und im Nahen Osten (2013). Ildikö Sz. Kristéf, ildiko.szkristof@gmail.com Senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Sz. Kristéf holds a CSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and teaches history and anthropology in the universities of Budapest and Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests include the history of cultural anthropology (the reception and appropriation of non-European indigenous peoples in eastern Europe/Hungary), the history of early modern books and communication, and the history of witch-hunting. She is the author of the book “7 Have Not Done Any Diabolic Deed:” The Social and Cultural Foundation of Witch-Hunting in the City of Debrecen and Bihar County Between the 16” and the 18” Centuries (1998). Her publications include “Missionaries, Monsters, and the Demon Show. Diabolized Representations of American Indians in Jesuit Libraries of 17 and 18 Century of Upper Hungary”, in A. Kérchy and A. Zittlau (eds.), Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and “Enfreakment” (2012) and The Representation of the Australian Aborigines in Text and Picture: Dr. Med. Pal Almdsi Balogh (1794-1863) and the Birth of the Science of Anthropology in Central Europe/ Hungary (Revista Caiana (Buenos Aires), dossier “Ciencia y cultura visual”, 2014, no. 5). Katya Lachowicz, katya.lachowicz@gmail.com Visual artist/filmmaker currently undertaking an MSc in socio-cultural anthropology at the University College London (UCL). Lachowicz works, both artistically and academically, with themes such as the politics of representation, identity and the play between reality and fiction. Zbigniew Libera, ziblibera@wp.pl PhD, ethnologist, working at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Libera’s research interests and publications are mainly about contemporary popular cultures in central and eastern Europe, the creation of knowledge and writing ethnography in Poland, the history of anthropology and the semiotics of culture. Christoph Lorke, christoph.lorke@uni-muenster.de PhD, research associate at the chair for Modern History II, Department of History, Westfaelische Wilhelms University Miinster. Lorke’s research interests cover the social and cultural history of poverty, GermanGerman relations and European contemporary history. Currently, Lorke is preparing a study about intimate relationships and marriages with foreigners in Germany, 1870-1940. His main publications: Armut im geteilten Deutschland. Die Wahrnehmung sozialer Randlagen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der DDR (edited with Eva Maria Gajek, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2015), Soziale Ungleichheit im Visier. Wahrnehmung und Deutung von Armut und Reichtum seit 1945 (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2016).
