Acknowledgments

Just as the Romani Atlantic was built through the movement of ideas, people and resources, so too was this project. Several gatherings facilitated the exchange of ideas that appear in this work. The 2021 Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy/Roma Studies, forced online due to COVID, initiated the dialogue that led to this volume. The Prague Center for Romani Histories has allowed this conversation to continue thanks to its annual international conferences. Special thanks to Kateřina Čapková, who established the Prague Center a decade ago, and Mateusz Chmurski, Director of the French Centre for Social Science Research (CEFRES), for their support for these important discussions. Later gatherings, including the 2022 Portuguese Anthropological Association meeting in Évora, Portugal and the 2024 conference, “Deportation Practices and Experiences in the Early Modern Period: The Habsburg Empire in International Comparison,” hosted by the Institute of Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, in Tübingen, Germany, allowed further refinement of our ideas. From these, Mattias Beer, Cayetano Fernández, Victoria Shmidt, Stephan Steiner and Tom Tyson deserve special mention.

Numerous others have contributed to this project in important ways. The contributors have been a joy to work with; their collaborative sensibilities and openness to feedback have strengthened the volume tremendously. Jennifer Illuzzi, Ari Joskowicz, Carol Silverman and Dalen Wakeley-Smith very helpfully commented on a draft of the introduction. The translation by Mariana Sabino-Salazar (for Rafael Buhigas Jiménez) and the proofreading assistance of Emma Welter (for David Lagunas and Martin Fotta) allowed these three chapters to achieve the shape in which they appear in this volume. Encouragement from the anonymous reviewers and Cambridge University Press editors Victoria Phillips and Cecelia Cancellaro has been much appreciated. Tina Magazzini, Senior Researcher, and Kateřina Joštová, Project Manager, both at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences, have supported the Romani Atlantic Project in countless helpful ways. Finally, we acknowledge the care and backing of our family and friends whose patience has made this work possible.

This work could not have been completed without the financial support of several funders. A Lumina Quaeruntur Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences (LQ300582201) enabled this work to be published open access. At Gonzaga University, the William L. Davis, S.J. Memorial Lecture Endowment, the International Education Council Fund at the Center for Global Engagement and the Research Council Fund very helpfully supported diverse components of this publication.