Robert Pichler
Robert Pichler is a historical anthropologist and photographer specializing in migration and visual studies at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His most significant work in the field of visual studies was published in 2020, in collaboration with Edit Pula, titled Albania’s 90s: Photographs and Narratives. For further research on migration and visual topics, see https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/personen/pichler-robert.
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.