Europe

João Gabriel Covolan Silva is a PhD Candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy) and a member of Lab-Mundi at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He holds a Master's degree in History from the University of Turin (Italy) and a...

Carlo Taviani earned his bachelor’s degree from the University La Sapienza in Rome and received his PhD from the University of Perugia. He has held fellowships at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (2005-2006) and the Deutsches Historisches...

Yugo Takehara is a Professor of Business History at Gakushuin University, specializing in the history of Jewish entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the relationship between religious integration within the bourgeoisie and the economic rise of Jews...

Ulrike von Hirschhausen (called Nellie) is a historian of imperial and global history, with a particular interest in writing global biographies of indigenous actors. Her book Empires: A Global History 1780-1920 (with Joern Leonhard) was published in 2023...

Benjamin Brendel is a research associate in modern history at Philipps University Marburg (Germany). His research interests are in global history, international relations, the history of environment and critical infrastructure. In his current project he...

Moritz von Brescius is a senior lecturer in modern history at University of Bern. His research areas include the global history of science and empire, the environmental and economic history of plantation economies, and the acclimatization of cash crops as...

Lori De Lucia is a historian who specializes in the history of slavery in the early modern Mediterranean, with a focus on networks connecting southern Italy and West Africa. She received her doctorate in History from UCLA in 2020. She is interested in...

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the regulation of mobility in the Dutch colonial overseas empire of the eighteenth century. In his sub...

Graeme Thompson is an Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His current research is focused on the history of empire and imperial expansion, Anglo-American liberalism and foreign policy, and ideas of world...

Malcolm Jenkins is a safety for the New Orleans Saints (formerly the Philadelphia Eagles) and a two-time Superbowl champion. Malcolm is also one of the co-heads of the NFL Player's Coalition, and a leader among athletes in pushing for criminal justice...