János B. Szabó
Ph.D. (2016), University of Debrecen, is a researcher at the Budapest History Museum and the Research Center for the Humanities (until recently of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of History. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Hungarian and Transylvanian military history, as well as on the relationship between Transylvania and the Ottoman Empire. His work includes “‘Splendid Isolation?’ The Military Cooperation of the Principality of Transylvania with the Ottoman Empire (1571–1688),” in The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, eds. Gábor Kármán and Lovro Kunčević (Brill, 2013.)
Ovidiu Cristea
Ph.D. (2003), Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, is a senior researcher of medieval and early modern history at that institution. He has published books, articles, and translations on Romanian and Venetian history and on the history of the Later Crusades and the Black Sea, including The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century (Brill, 2017, in collaboration with Liviu Pilat).
Tetiana Grygorieva
Ph.D. (2010), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, is an associate professor at the same university. She has published articles and translations on various topics of early modern history with the main focus on diplomatic relations between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.
Klára Jakó
Ph.D. (1999), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, is a research fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities (until recently of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of History. Her research field is the history of the Transylvanian Principality. She has published a monograph and several studies on the history of books, literacy, and libraries in Transylvania as well as the principality’s Oriental politics. Her works include “Hungarians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Moldavian and Wallachian Chronicles,” in A Divided Hungary in Europe, vol. 3, ed. Kees Teszelszky (Newcastle, 2014); “Visiting Protocol and Ceremonies at the Porte: Dávid Rozsnyai’s Seventeenth-century Manual,” in Archivum Ottomanicum 35 (2018).
Ph.D. (2009), Eötvös Loránd University, is a research fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities (until recently of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of History. He has published widely on the history of Transylvania in various contexts, on seventeenth-century confessional politics, and on the history of Ottoman tributary states. His recent works include A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The Life of Jakab Harsányi Nagy (Brill, 2015) and Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania, 1644–1657 (Göttingen, 2020).
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
Ph.D. (1990), University of Warsaw, is a professor of early modern history at that university and at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the Ottoman Empire and the relations of East Central Europe to Islam and Asia. His works include Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (Brill, 2000); The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (Brill, 2011); and – co-edited with Peter Bang – Universal Empire. A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (CUP, 2012).
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska
Ph.D. (2010), University of Warsaw, is an assistant professor at that university. She has published studies on the Black Sea region in the early modern period, including Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532–1774). With Special Reference to the Reign of Murad Giray (1678–1683) (Brill, 2019).
Erica Mezzoli
Ph.D. (2011), University of Trieste, is a researcher at the Livio Saranz Institute in Trieste. Her publications mainly focus on the social, economic, and labor history of Southeastern Europe in the early modern and modern periods.
Viorel Panaite
Ph.D. (1995), University of Bucharest, is a professor of Ottoman history and researcher at the Institute of Southeast European Studies (Romanian Academy). He has published extensively on war, peace, and tributaries from an Ottoman perspective, as well as on Western merchants in the Levant. His works include Ottoman Law of War and Peace. The Ottoman Empire and its Tribute-Payers from the North of the Danube. Second Revised Edition (Brill, 2019).
Ph.D. (2003), is a researcher at Centre d’Études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen (CNRS, EHESS, Paris) and section editor on Southeastern Europe in the project Christian-Muslim Relations to 1900. A Bibliographical History. He has published extensively on political theology and the history of the political elites in the post-Byzantine world (fifteenth to eighteenth century) and on the relations between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. The most recent volume he co-edited is Paradigmes rebelles. Pratiques et cultures de la désobéissance à l’époque moderne (Peter Lang, 2018, with Gregorio Salinero and Manuela Águeda García-Garrido).
Ruža Radoš Ćurić
Ph.D. (2017), University of Zagreb and University of Dubrovnik, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Early Modern History at the Croatian Institute of History. She has published articles on eighteenth-century relations between the Republic of Dubrovnik and the Ottoman Empire.
Balázs Sudár
Ph.D. (2004) Eötvös Loránd University, is currently a research fellow of the Research Center for the Humanities (until recently of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute of History. He has published extensively on the political and cultural history of Ottoman Hungary. His works include Camis and Mosques in Ottoman Hungary (2014, in Hungarian). He also publishes on the early history of the Magyar tribes before the conquest of Hungary.
Michał Wasiucionek
Ph.D. (2016), European University Institute, Florence, is currently a research assistant at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest and postdoctoral researcher for the ERC grant “Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS),” at New Europe College, Bucharest. His recent publications include Ottomans and Eastern Europe: Borders and Political Patronage in the Early Modern World (London, 2019), as well as a number of articles and contributions focusing on the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia and their ties to Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire.