Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov is Associate Professor of anthropology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia (Stanford, 2003) and Two Lenins: A Brief Anthropology of Time (HAU, 2017).
Laia Soto Bermant is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Trade, Transit and Travel in the Mediterranean at the University of Helsinki. She has a BA in Humanities from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2012); she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Transborder Studies of Arizona State University (2013-2014), a lecturer at Bournemouth University, and a Visiting Researcher at the Migration Studies Centre (NEMI) of the University of San Martin, in Buenos Aires.