Dr. Mary Neuburger is the Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies; the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES); Co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History; and a Professor in the Department of History. Her research focus is on modern eastern Europe with a specialization in southeastern Europe. Her research interests include urban culture, consumption, commodity exchange, and the history of truth, lies, and “pseudoscience”.

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Dr. Michael W. Mosser is Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, the Center for European Studies (CES), and the International Relations and Global Studies (IRG) program. He is the Executive Director of the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL), the Director of the Center for European Studies (CES), as well as a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

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Ryan Williams is one of the founders of the Global Disinformation Lab and a current PhD student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. As creator and TTL for Project Evergreen, he is leading a strong team of GDIL researchers and LBJ graduate students to create the first Global Disinformation Policy Database that plans to release a dataset of all known policy responses to disinformation and misinformation

Kiril Avramov is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies (DSES) and a Fellow at the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds courtesy appointments at the Department of Government and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Co-Director of the Global Disinformation Lab.

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Dr. Liu is a professor and the Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. My research and teaching focus on the intersection of language and politics – whether the politics of language (e.g., the representation and attitudes of linguistic minorities) or the language of politics (e.g., how leaders talk and how people think). 

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Volodymyr Kulikov is a historian holding a position as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin in the Department fo Slavic and Eurasian Studies. His most recent appointment was at the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of Central European University (CEU) and at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) and the Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). 

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