List of Contributors
Yukiyasu ARAI is a research fellow at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido,
Japan. He specializes in the social history of Mongolic languages and literatures. His current
research focuses on the history of Bible translations into Mongolic languages in the 18th and19th centuries. His publications include “Integration and Separation of ‘Language’: Language
Policies of Mongolian Peoples in the USSR and Mongolia, 1920–1940” (2006), History ofBible translations in Mongolic Languages in Russian Empire (in Japanese: forthcoming).
Emmanuel BRUNET-JAILLY is Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urbanand Border policy. He is the editor of the Journal of Borderland Studies (Routledge) andexecutive secretary and treasurer of the international scholarly Association for Borderlands
Studies. His publications include, Borderlands: Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe (2010) and the edited three-volume reference Border Disputes: A Global
Encyclopedia (2015).
Catherine GIBSON is a doctoral researcher in the Department of History & Civilisation atthe European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her current research focuses on ethnolinguistic cartography in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Sheis author of Borderlands between History and Memory: Latgale’s Palimpsestuous Past inContemporary Latvia (2016) and a co-editor, with Tomasz Kamusella and Motoki Nomachi,of The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (2016).
Tomasz KAMUSELLA is a reader of modern history at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. He was a foreign fellow at the SRC in 2011. He specializes in the interdisciplinary
study of language politics and nationalism in modern central Europe. His recent English-language publications include the monograph Creating Languages in Central Europe during
the Last Millennium (2014) and The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of RegainedHistorical Continuity (2017), alongside two coedited volumes, namely, The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (2016), and Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880–1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be)Longing in Upper Silesia (2016).
Michael MOSER is Professor of Slavic linguistics at the Institute for Slavic Studies of theUniversity of Vienna, the Ukrainian Free University in Munich and the Pázmány Péter
Catholic University in Budapest and Piliscsaba. His recent publications include, Language
Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych (25 February 2010–28 October 2012) (2014) and New Contributions to the History of the UkrainianLanguage (2016).
Motoki NOMACHI is Associate Professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. He holds a PhD in Slavic linguistics from the University of Tokyo.
His research interests include language contact with special attention to Kashubian. Dr
Nomachi is a member of the Commission on the Study of the Grammatical Structure ofthe Slavic Languages of International Committee of Slavists (2011–present), an executive
member of the Slavic Linguistics Society (2016–present). His publications include Grammaticalization and lexicalization in Slavic languages (2014, coedited with Andrii Danylenkoand Predrag Piper), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders(2015, coedited with Tomasz Kamusella and Catherine Gibson).

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