Áron Bence was a DAAD contact scholarship holder at the University of Oldenburg and a guest researcher in the "Prize Papers" project. He is writing his doctoral thesis in early modern history of mentality entitled "The Representation of the Other in European Printed Narratives of the 16th Century". In this context, he is focussing on cultural foreignness, "transactional go-betweens" and European notions of cannibalism and witchcraft. His methodological focus is on narrative theories and global microhistory.
Áron Bence is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary.

Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (PhD, UC Santa Barbara) is a visiting researcher at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. Ziegler-McPherson is the author of Selling America: Immigration Promotion and the Settlement of the American Continent, 1607-1914 (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press, 2017); Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845-1985 (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011), and Americanisation in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929 (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009). Ziegler-McPherson held a Fulbright Senior Scholar teaching/research fellowship at Universität Bremen in 2014-2015. Her research focuses on history and theory of migration, assimilation, community development, and national and ethnoracial identity; she also works as a museum curator. Christina Ziegler-McPherson visited the Carl von Ossietzky-University as a guest researcher in connection with the FLiF(Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus)-program for the internationalisation of research-oriented teaching.