Notes on Contributors
Viorel Achim
is a Senior Researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. His research fields include the history of Gypsies (Roma), ethnic minorities in Romania between 1918 and 1948, population policy in Romania during the Second World War, and the Holocaust. He is the author of several publications on the slavery, abolitionism, and the emancipation of Gypsies in the Romanian principalities, including The Roma in Romanian History (2004).
Michel Balard
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His published work includes La Romanie génoise (XIIeâdébut du XVe siècle), 2 vols. (1978); Gênes et lâoutre-mer, 2 vols. (1973â80); Notai genovesi in oltremare, 6 vols. (1983â2016); Les latins en Orient, XIeâXVe siècle (Paris, 2006); La Méditerranée médiévale. Espaces, itinéraires, comptoirs (2006); La Méditerranée au Moyen Age: les hommes et la mer (Paris, 2014); Croisades et Orient latin (XIeâXIVe s.) (2017); (ed.) The Sea in History: The Medieval World (2017); Genova e il mare (2017).
Hannah Barker
is Assistant Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her research interests centre around ideologies and practices of slavery in the medieval Mediterranean, especially the slave trade from the Black Sea to the markets of Cairo, Genoa, and Venice during the 13th to the 15th century. She studies the merchants who conducted this trade and the processes of shipping, marketing, and purchasing slaves. Her recent publications include That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260â1500 (2019) and âPurchasing a Slave in Fourteenth-Century Cairo: Ibn al-AkfÄnÄ«âs Book of Observation and Inspection in the Examination of Slavesâ, Mamluk Studies Review, 19 (2016).
Andrzej Gliwa
is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History of the East European State Higher School in PrzemyÅl and a specialist in archival queries at the National Heritage Board of Poland, Regional Office in Rzeszów. His main areas of research include early modern warfare and armed conflicts in the border zone between the Ottoman Empire/Crimean Khanate and the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth; economic and social history; and memory studies. His current research focuses on: the early modern Crimean Khanate and the Budjak hordesâ military art of war; types and rules of military engagement during Tatar predatory and slaving raids; war damage in 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the experience, collective memory, and cultural trauma of Tatar invasions in early modern east-central Europe.
Colin Heywood
has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan, and also at Tufts University; subsequently, from 1974, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Since his retirement from SOAS in 1999 he has been Visiting Professor at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Cyprus. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. His publications include The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean, and North Africa, 1660â1760 (2013) and Ottomanica and Meta-Ottomanica. Studies in and around Ottoman History, 13thâ18th centuries (2013) as well as numerous articles on Ottoman and Mediterranean history.
Sergei Pavlovich Karpov
is Professor of History and President of the Historical Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University; he is also Head of the Department of Medieval Studies and Director of the Center of Byzantine and Pontic Studies of the same university. He is a full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011) and has published some 510 titles, including ten books. His fields of research are Byzantine history; Venice, Genoa and the Black Sea area in the Middle Ages; the economic history of the 13thâ15th centuries; and archival studies.
Mikhail Kizilov
is a Senior Research Assistant at the State Centre of Russian Folklore in Moscow. He has written more than 100 various publications on Karaite, Crimean, and Jewish history â in English, Russian, German, and Polish â including The Sons of Scripture. The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century (2015), The Karaites of Galicia (2009), and Karaites through the Travelersâ Eyes (2003). Some of his studies have been translated into Turkish, French, and Hebrew.
Dariusz KoÅodziejczyk
is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Warsaw and at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, and relations between eastern Europe and the Middle East. His interests also comprise the comparative history of empires and frontiers. He is currently President of the Comité International des Ãtudes Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes and an Honorary Member of the Turkish Historical Society. His most important publications include OttomanâPolish Diplomatic Relations (2000), The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (2011), and (ed. with Peter Bang) Universal Empire. A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (2012).
Maryna Kravets
is currently completing her PhD at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. Her main specialization is Ottoman history, with a dissertation on the history of slavery in the 17th-century Crimean Khanate. She is also trained in Turkology and medieval Middle Eastern history. She has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph and is a consultant on Ottoman and Turkic elements for the Hrushevsky Translation Project. She has published on Cossack history, Crimean slavery, and Ottoman-East European interactions.
Natalia Królikowska-JedliÅska
is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on Crimean, Ottoman, and Caucasian history in the early modern period. Her publications include Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532â1774). With Special Reference to the Reign of Murad Giray (1678â1683) (2019).
Sandra Origone
is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Genoa. Her fields of research and teaching also include Byzantine history. In particular her researches deal with the history of Mediterranean societies, Italian maritime towns, overseas settlements, colonization and the relationship between different ethnical entities, maritime and mercantile activities, relations between Byzantium and the West (diplomacy, politics, and marriage connections), western familiesâ connections with the Levant, the western view of Byzantines and vice versa, the Seljuk emirates pressures on Aegean Latin societies and the Ottoman threat on the eastern border of Christendom, socio-cultural and religious contacts (precious objects, relics), the history of Byzantine Italy (Byzantine Liguria, 6th and 7th centuries), inscriptions, and documentary editions.
Victor Ostapchuk
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. He is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Instituteâs series âStudies in Ottoman Documents pertaining to Ukraine and the Black Sea Countriesâ and a consultant on Ottoman and Turkic elements for the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is co-director of the Akkerman Fortress Project (
Daphne Penna
is Assistant Professor in Legal History at the University of Groningen. She is the author of the book The Byzantine Imperial Acts to Venice, Pisa and Genoa, 10th-12th centuries. A comparative Legal Study (2012). She has published numerous articles on legal issues concerning Byzantium and the Italians and on various sources of Byzantine law, including the Rhodian Sea-Law, the ânewâ Basilica scholia, the Ecloga Basilicorum and the Hexabiblos. Her interests are Roman and Byzantine law and in particular their influence on the European legal tradition.
Felicia RoÈu
is a lecturer in history at Leiden University. She specializes in early modern political thought and practice; east-central European history; and frontier zones in south-eastern Europe. Her publications include Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569â1587 (2017) and Critical Readings on Global Slavery (2017), co-edited with Damian Alan Pargas.
Ehud R. Toledano
is the Director of the Program in Ottoman & Turkish Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His publications include The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840â1890 (1982); State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt (1990); Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East (1998); As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in Islamic Middle East (ed., 2007), African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean: Identities between Integration and Conflict (2011); and with Dror Zeâevi (eds.), Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East: âModernitiesâ in the Making (2015).