Notes on Contributors
Cátia Antunes
PhD (2004), Leiden University, is associate professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004), with Francesca Trivellato and Leor Halevi (eds.), Religion and Trade (2014) and with Jos Gommans (eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire (2015). She has been awarded a several research grants and is now working on.
Peter Borschberg
teaches history at the National University of Singapore and has held visiting appointments in Europe and Asia. He has published widely on early maritime commerce and diplomacy with a focus on the Singapore and Melaka straits region during the period 1400–1800.
Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm
received his PhD in 2011 at the University of Copenhagen for a thesis on Anglo-French piracy from (published in 2013 as Ports, Piracy and Maritime War: Piracy in the English Channel and the Atlantic, c. 1280–c. 1330). Since 2012 he is director of the project ‘Danish Historical Writing before 1225. He is current research interests includes medieval piracy, Franco-Danish and Anglo-Danish relations in the Middle Ages, knighthood, and the history of emotions in the Middle Ages.
Jorrit M. Kelder
works for Leiden University and is an associate of the Oriental Studies department at Oxford University. He has a background in Classical Archaeology, with a special interest in the eastern Mediterranean. For his PhD he compared the Mycenaean state with other political entities in the Late Bronze Age Orient. His current research integrates textual and archaeological evidence, and focuses on i.a. (ruler) iconography, interactions between cultures and regions, and long-distance trade and exchange. He worked for a number of fieldwork projects in Egypt, Syria, Greece and Romania, and served as a consultant for various exhibitions.
Thomas Kirk
has published extensively on the political and economic history of the Republic of Genoa, including the 2005 monograph Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684. After spending more than twenty years in Italy teaching in the Italian university system and for American study-abroad programs, he returned to his native Oklahoma (usa) in 2011. He is currently a lecturer and teaches interdisciplinary courses in the Humanities at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Kris Lane
holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. His work concentrates on the history of mining, trade, and piracy in the early modern Spanish & Portuguese Empires. Lane is author of Potosí: The Silver City that Changed the World (2019), Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires (2010), Quito 1599: City & Colony in Transition (2002), and Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas (2d ed. 2015). He is currently completing a history of the great Potosí mint fraud of the 1640s and its global repercussions.
Olaf Mörke
was Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Kiel (Germany) from 1996 to 2018. His research is focused on governance in early modern Europe, Reformation history, and the history of ideas especially in Germany and Northern Europe. Professor Mörke has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study (Wassenaar) and of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg (Greifswald).
Marco Mostert
is Professor of Medieval History at Utrecht University. He specializes in the social history of communication in the Middle Ages and is the editor of Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, published by Brepols (Turnhout), in which to date more than forty volumes have appeared.
Remco Raben
teaches Asian, colonial and global history at Utrecht University and holds a chair in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultural History and Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes on the history of early-modern and modern history of Southeast Asia and of Indonesia in particular.
Anjana Singh
earned her PhD from University of Leiden in 2007. Since 2013 she is Asst. Prof. in South Asian and Global History at University of Groningen. She is author of Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750–1830: The social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2010). Her latest publication is ‘Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World’ in Felipe Fernández-Armesto ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Rolf Strootman
is associate professor of History at the University of Utrecht. His research focuses on empire, monarchy and cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean, Iran and Central Asia. He is the author of Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires (2014), The Birdcage of the Muses: Cultural and Scientific Patronage at the Ptolemaic Imperial Court (2017), and together with M.J. Versluys edited the volume Persianism in Antiquity (2017).
Floris van den Eijnde
obtained his PhD at the University of Utrecht in 2010 (Cult and Society in Early Athens). He excavated at the Athenian Agora and at Thorikos. He is currently employed as Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the Department of History and Art History of the University of Utrecht. His current research revolves around Early Iron Age and Archaic Athenian society. He is the editor, with J. H. Blok and R. Strootman, of the volume Feasting and Polis Institutions, and the main editor of the Brill series Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean.
Roy van Wijk
obtained his PhD in 2019 at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) for a study of the interstate relations between Attica and Boeotia from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, under the guidance of Fabienne Marchand. The focus of his research is the dynamics of the border region between the two areas, and role of (border) sanctuaries in interstate relations.