Sarah Ernst (they/them) is a PhD student in History at the University of Southern California. Their research interests include the Holocaust and the AIDS epidemic, with a focus on queer history. They are looking to explore the intersection between the Holocaust and queer history and the memorialization of these experiences in the postwar era in Germany. Sarah Ernst received their B.A. in History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2020 from Brandeis University. While there, they completed a Senior Honors Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Hannah Weiss Muller entitled, “You Mean Something Absolutely Vital to Me”: An Insight into the Lived Experiences of Female Companions to Hysterics in England in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” This research looked at hysteria and the personal and social impacts of it for women in non-heteronormative relationships.

Diana Lenton is a Doctor in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, where she currently teaches. She is a Professor in the Specialization in Cultural Studies of the National University of Santiago del Estero, and taught at the National University of Brasilia. She is an Independent Career Researcher at CONICET. She leads research teams. She has been a commentator / rapporteur / organizer in dozens of specialized congresses, and directed numerous undergraduate and graduate thesis. She founded with other colleagues the Network of Researchers in Genocide and Indigenous Peoples. She collaborated with the defense of originary communities and leaders in several judicial cases derived from the criminalization of the defense of their territories. At the end of 2016 she received the prestigious Peace and Solidarity among Peoples Memorial Prize, awarded by the Peace and Justice Service (SERPAJ), from the Nobel Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.