Robert Pichler
Robert Pichler is Head of the Research Group Historical Anthropology at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). His research focuses on migration and mobility, family and kinship, social and political transformations, nation-building, and visual culture in Southeastern Europe, with a particular focus on Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. He is Head of the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ethnologia Balkanica. His research also includes visual and photographic work, combining historical-anthropological research with documentary and artistic approaches.
Elife Krasniqi
Elife (Eli) Krasniqi is an anthropologist and writer. Her research has examined gender, family, patriarchy, social movements, and memory in socialist and post-socialist Kosovo. Her current research focuses on the historical presence of African populations in the Balkans from the late Ottoman period, with particular attention to the afterlives of domestic slavery and the intersections of gender, race, and class. Krasniqi conducted research and taught at the University of Graz (2019–2023), where she is currently a Seed Postdoc Fellow and Guest Researcher.