Eva Moreda is Professor of Musicology at the University of Glasgow. She has written four books on music in Spain, focusing on music and politics under Franco and an early history of recorded sound.
Ryan Szpiech is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. His books include Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (2013).
Geraldine A. Johnson is Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. She is the editor of Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches (2026) and co-editor of Photo Archives and the Place of Photography (2025).
Ulf Laessing was until recently Head of the Regional Sahel Programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and previously a foreign correspondent for Reuters in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi (2020).
Maggie L. Popkin is Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her books include Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome (2022).
William Chester Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His previous books include From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages (2015) and The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX (2019).