Rozita Dimova (PhD Stanford University, 2004) is a Social Anthropologist. She has held research positions at prominent institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (2003-2006), Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin (2007-2015), and served as an Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies at Ghent University in Belgium (2013-2020). A Founding and Permanent Board Member at the Center for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Research in Skopje, North Macedonia, she is currently also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Kőszeg, Hungary.
Lumnije Jusufi (PhD Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2009, Habilitation Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2021) is an Albanologist and Linguist. She was a doctoral and post-doctoral fellow in Munich, and a Humboldt Fellow in Tirana. She approaches migration studies through sociolinguistics. Her doctoral thesis was in Dialectology and Area Linguistics on Albanian in North Macedonia; her habilitation thesis on the influence of the state border on the region of Dibra (Albania-North Macedonia).