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Note: new staff members are appointed based upon commitment, partnership/affiliate support, and contribution level. We currently deal with outside contributors and academic consultants and add staff members only as needed for website administration and organisation. Only those listed below are of managerial status.

1) James Mayfield (Director)

Position/Title: Founder, Director, Lead Writer of all essays, Chief Editor
Email Address: director@expelledgermans.org
Profession: Historian, Director of the IREG, Chairman of the European Heritage Library
Academic Credentials: Cum Laude BA in European History and Minour in Germanic Studies (language and history) - both from California State University, Long Beach; Masters Summa Cum Laude in History - California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D. Doctorate Fellow, Stanford University.
Research Emphasis: Islamic & European history; German history; European and immigrant minourity regional/cultural identities; comparative nationalism; comparative socialism/Communism; ancient Germanic culture and religion
Languages Spoken: Fluent English & German; good Dutch and Afrikaans; moderate Czech and Slovak

Outside Publications:
1) "The vanquished Volga German community." Delivered at the "Forgotten Genocide" conference at the College of Meramec in St. Louis, Missouri. Filmed for DVD and TV, 2010.

2) "Changing and constructed frameworks of ethnoracial identity under Italian Fascism." Published and presented at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest, Romania, 2011.

3) Scholarly consultant for source accuracy and back-cover reviewer for Reale, Luigi. Mussolini's Concentration Camps for Civilians, 2011. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.

4) Published Masters Thesis, "Imagining Revolutionary World Orders: Understanding Post-colonial State Formation as Projects for Alternative Modernities." CSU Fullerton, 2011.

5) Special contributor to a doctoral thesis on Albanian socialist history at Stradclythe University in Glasgow, Scotland.

6) Translation work on a 17th-century document submitted by a French prisoner to the Dutch Estates General requesting asylum for refusal to convert to Catholicism. Translated from Dutch to English for Dr. Lougee of Stanford University, 2011.

7) My photography and research on the sociopolitical situation of the Roma (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary was published and broadcast by the United Nations television department, Senior TV Producer Patricia Chan, TV Section, NMD/DPI, in 2011.

2) Adjunct- Ernesto W. Weigandt (Spanish and Portuguese Translator)

Nationality: Argentine, currently living in Panama
Ethnicity: Volga German descent
Languages Spoken: Fluent English, German, Spanish, Portuguese
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