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Enzo Traverso is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His research focuses on the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He was born in Italy, studied history at the University of Genoa and received his Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 1989. Before coming to Cornell in 2013, he taught political science for twenty years at the University of Piccardy, France. He has been a visiting professor in several European and Latin American universities. His authored several books, which are translated into more than fifteen languages, including The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1994; 2018) The Jews and Germany: From the ‘Judeo-German Symbiosis’ to the Memory of Auschwitz (1995); The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003); The End of Jewish Modernity (2016); Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History and Memory (2016); Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945 (2016); Revolution: An Intellectual History (2021); and Singular Pasts: The ‘I’ in Historiography (2022).

Claudia Verhoeven is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the modern cultural-intellectual history—and especially the cultural-intellectual history of political violence—of Russia, Europe, and the United States. She was born in the Netherlands and educated in the U.S., earning a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from UCLA. She is the author of The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and Birth of Terrorism (2009) and Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders (forthcoming 2026) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (2022). She has been a fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin.