Angelos Dalachanis is a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Institute of Early Modern and Modern History in Paris. His research focuses on migration, labor and the Greek diaspora in the modern Eastern Mediterranean. He is the author of The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962 (2017) and co-author of Monde rêvé, monde collectionné: la Méditérannée orientale d'Antonis Benakis (1900-1931) (2025). He co-directs the journal Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire, and co-leads two research projects at the Ecole française d'Athènes on post-Ottoman minorities (with Alexis Rappas) and object circulation (with Mercedes Volait).

Alexis Rappas is Associate Professor of History, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on the impact of European colonialism in post-Ottoman settings. He is the author of the Runciman award shortlisted book Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict (2014). His subsequent research has focused on the entanglement between property and sovereignty in British Cyprus, the Italian Dodecanese and French Mandate Syria. He is in addition co-directing (with Angelos Dalachanis) an Ecole française d'Athènes five-year research project on minorities in the post-Ottoman Mediterranean.