Karen Farquharson is Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Anti-Racism Hallmark Research Initiative, and President of Academic Board at the University of Melbourne. Her research is focused on the sociology of ‘race’, racism and diversity, particularly in the contexts of media and sport. Her recent work has looked at how organisations manage diversity including organisational opportunities for and barriers to increasing diversity. Karen is co-author of three books including Qualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age (2016) and co-editor of three collections, most recently Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging (2018) and Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness (2019). She is author of multiple refereed journal articles and book chapters.

Ioannis E. Kotoulas (Ph. D. in History, University of Athens; Ph.D. in Geopolitics, University of Athens) is Adjunct Lecturer in Geopolitics at the University of Athens and Guest Lecturer at the State Department/Foreign Service Institute. He has been Visiting Lecturer at Tbilisi State University, Invited Researcher at Leipzig University and Guest Lecturer at Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tongji University, Xi’an University, Chongqing University, Odesa National University and University of Georgia (Tbilisi). His books include History of Modern Greek Geopolitics, 1830-present (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), [Editor] Greece Reborn: Aspects of Modern Greece, 1821-2021 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2024), Geopolitics of the War against Ukraine (Athens: Papazissis, 2024), History of Greek Geopolitical Thought, (Athens: Leimon, 2021), Migration and Dominant Culture: Religion, Politics, Multiculturalism, (Athens: Papazissis, 2011).

Fethi Mansouri is a Deakin Distinguished Professor and founding Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. He holds a research chair in Migration and Intercultural Studies (2008-), the UNESCO Chair for Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice (2013-) and was named Australia’s Top Researcher in Human Migration (2023-24) in the Australian Newspaper Research Magazine. He is the editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation Studies and founding co-editor of the International Journal of Social Inclusion. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (FASSA) in 2020.