Dorina-Maria Buda conducts interdisciplinary research focusing on the interconnections between tourist spaces, people and emotions in times and places of socio-political conflicts. She conducts ethnographic work in such places of on-going turmoil like Jordan, Israel and Palestine. She is the author of Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict.

Jennie Germann Molz teaches courses on emotion, social theory, travel and tourism, and family life at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of The World is Our Classroom: Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling and Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World.