Michael Hornsby (PhD, DLitt) is currently head of the Centre for Celtic Studies, Faculty of English, at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Michael researches minority language sociolinguistics and has written on Breton, Welsh, Lemko and Yiddish, particularly how these languages are being revitalized and transformed as a result of language revitalization. His current work focuses on marginalized groups within minority language communities.
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska (PhD, DLitt), anthropologist and sociolinguist, Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on the transmission and revitalization of minority languages, as well as the relation between using a minority language and maintaining cultural consciousness. She has conducted fieldwork in Kashubia, Poland; Lusatia, Germany; Brittany, France; and Wales, United Kingdom, comparing language and cultural practices of young generations of European linguistic minorities and on minority language activism. Nicole carried out research on students from German-speaking families acquiring language and cultural competences in Upper Sorbian Gymnasium. Together with dr. Cordula Ratajczak she worked on the Upper and Sorbian languages revitalization efforts in the frame of the SMiLE project.
Joanna Chojnicka holds a PhD in Latvian linguistics and an MA in Latvian philology, both from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English of that university. Previously she was a Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty 10: Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Bremen, where she also acted as the Managing Director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS). Her research interests include discourse, gender and sexuality, the language of argumentation, manipulation and resistance, ecolinguistics, and discourses of language revitalization.
Jeanne Toutous is a PHD candidate at Arènes (UMR 6051), University of Rennes 1. She is also ATER (lecturer) at the University of Rennes 2. Her PHD thesis in political science tackles collective action for minority languages in Brittany and Lusatia. Her research interests include sociology of languages, regionalist and nationalist phenomena, collective repertoires of contention and sociology of activism.