Sinan Tankut Gülhan graduated from the METU Department of Sociology with High Honors in 2003, after which he received his Master's degree in 2006 and his PhD in 2014 from the Department of Sociology at SUNY-Binghamton. He has taught at SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Oneonta in the USA, and at Sabancı, Arel, FMV Işık, Uludağ, Yıldırım Beyazıt, and Gaziantep universities in Turkey. He obtained his Associate Professorship in the subfield of urban sociology in 2020. Since 2023, he has been pursuing his academic career at the University of Zielona Góra in Poland.

Gülhan's primary research areas are urban sociology, urbanization processes, and critical urban theory. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach in these fields, he also conducts research on the effects of digitalization on urban life. In addition to his articles published in reputable international and national journals, he is the author of a book titled "The Rise and Fall of the New Urban Sociology."

Libera Pisano is currently an Assistant Researcher at Nova University of Lisbon, supported by the FCT Stimulus of Scientific Employment (Individual Support). She earned her PhD in Theoretical Philosophy from La Sapienza (Rome) in 2014 with a dissertation titled Lo spirito manifesto. Percorsi linguistici nella filosofia hegeliana (ETS, 2016). She has been Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Research Associate at University of Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, at the University of Calabria and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research explores the practical-political role of language, the interplay between exile and identity, and the political-theological dimensions of community in modern German and German-Jewish philosophy. Her forthcoming book, The Exile of Language: German-Jewish Philosophical Challenges to Linguistic Autochthony, will be published by Brill.

Libera Pisano is currently an Assistant Researcher at Nova University of Lisbon, supported by the FCT Stimulus of Scientific Employment (Individual Support). She earned her PhD in Theoretical Philosophy from La Sapienza (Rome) in 2014 with a dissertation titled Lo spirito manifesto. Percorsi linguistici nella filosofia hegeliana (ETS, 2016). She has been Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Research Associate at University of Hamburg, and Research Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, at the University of Calabria and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research explores the practical-political role of language, the interplay between exile and identity, and the political-theological dimensions of community in modern German and German-Jewish philosophy. Her forthcoming book, The Exile of Language: German-Jewish Philosophical Challenges to Linguistic Autochthony, will be published by Brill.