Research interests: History of Europe during early modern times, particularly the political economy of the Iberian Empires; global capital; merchant networks; slave traffic; Asian trade; and global cities.
Rombert Stapel (1983) studied Medieval History at Leiden University. He graduated in 2008 on a prosopographical study of the priest-brethren of the Teutonic Order in the Utrecht bailiwick (1350-1600). Since then he has been working on a PhD dissertation...
Research interests: History of unfree labor, forced migration, and penal regimes; social history of Russia and the Soviet Union; and global history.
Research interests: The transnational history of American and German colonial railways, 1884–1918.
Norberto O. Ferreras is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Latin American History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil). He is a historian of forced and indigenous labor in Latin America and the relations of this region with the International...
Research interests: Global and intellectual history, specializing in the late Middle Ages, Spanish Atlantic, and poverty history.
Florian Weber studied Economic History and Economics at University of Zurich and Autonomous University of Madrid. He obtained his MA degree in 2012 with a master thesis on the financial crisis of 1931. He is currently a doctoral candidate with the...
Research Interests: Governance of migration; fronteras and border theories; global regimes of labor mobility; and autonomous practices of social movements.
Research Interests: Economic and World history with a focus on land, labor, and rural transformations.