EXPERT TEAM
The expert team is constituted of historians and curators from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France and Germany, 12 persons all together. The main task of the expert team is to support the project team, especially through discussions on the content of the project and contributions to the preparation and realization of the project activities and outputs.

Marie-Edith Agostini
Freelance curator, Paris (F)
Corine Defrance
Historian, Directress of research at CNRS, Paris (F)

Dino Dupanović
Historian, Director of the Museum of the Una-Sana Canton, Bihac (BIH)
Yvan Gastaut
Historian, Senior Lecturer at the University of Nice (F)
Sanja Horvatinčić
Research Associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb (HR)
Hrvoje Klasić
Professor at the History Department University of Zagreb (HR)
Dagmar Lieske
Historian, Research associate at the German Resistance Memorial, Berlin (D)
Nataša Mataušić
Historian, Former Directress of Croatian History Museum, Zagreb (HR)
Nedim Pustahija
Curator, History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegowina, Sarajevo (BiH)
Robert Parzer
Historian, Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar (D)
Vladan Vukliš
Historian and archivist, Assistant Director Archives of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka (BiH)
Matthias Waechter
Historian, Director of CIFE, Nice (F)Matthias Waechter was born in Bonn in 1965. After his studies of History and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Paris, and Rochester, he took his PhD at the University of Freiburg and joined the faculty of the history department. He was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris in 1997/98 and a Fulbright Fellow at New York University in 1999. In 2000, he joined CIFE, first as a DAAD Visiting Professor and since 2005 as its Director. He specializes in U.S. history, contemporary France, Franco-German relations and European integration. In his research, he focuses on problems of collective identity, historical consciousness, political myths and transnational intellectuals. His book “Der Mythos des Gaullismus. Heldenkult, Geschichtspolitik und Ideologie” (2006) was awarded with the Franco-German Parliamentary Prize and the Daimler Chrysler Services Prize.