Hartmut Berghoff was director of the German Historical Institute Washington DC from 2008-2015. He currently is director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen. He has researched and taught at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Tübingen, Humboldt University Berlin, the Beisheim Graduate School of Management Koblenz, Harvard Business School and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. For his extensive publications in the fields of business history, cultural and economic history and the history of consumption and consumerism, Hartmut Berghoff has received numerous awards and honors. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Clelia Caruso was a Research Fellow at the Institute from 2011 to 2014. Her research at the intersection of social and cultural history transcends national boundaries and approaches migration and technology from the perspectives of transnational and entangled history. She studied and worked as a research fellow at the University of Trier, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2010. Her thesis Eigene Welt? Der transnationale Sozialraum italienischer Arbeitsmigranten in Seraing (1946-1990) is currently under revision for publication in the Industrielle Welt (Böhlau) series. She co-edited Postwar Mediterranean Migration to Western Europe: Legal and Political Frameworks, Social Mobility and Memory (Peter Lang, 2008). In her current research on the culture of the telephone in the United States and Germany she examines how the telephone became a technical object of everyday life. The concurrent changes in its usage and interpretations are read in view of an emerging mindset of modernity.

Clelia Caruso was a Research Fellow at the Institute from 2011 to 2014. Her research at the intersection of social and cultural history transcends national boundaries and approaches migration and technology from the perspectives of transnational and entangled history. She studied and worked as a research fellow at the University of Trier, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2010. Her thesis Eigene Welt? Der transnationale Sozialraum italienischer Arbeitsmigranten in Seraing (1946-1990) is currently under revision for publication in the Industrielle Welt (Böhlau) series. She co-edited Postwar Mediterranean Migration to Western Europe: Legal and Political Frameworks, Social Mobility and Memory (Peter Lang, 2008). In her current research on the culture of the telephone in the United States and Germany she examines how the telephone became a technical object of everyday life. The concurrent changes in its usage and interpretations are read in view of an emerging mindset of modernity.