Cátia Antunes
is Professor of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires at the Institute for History, at Leiden University. She is currently the principal investigator of the project Exploiting the Empire of Others supported by the Dutch Research Council.
Francisco Bethencourt
is Charles Boxer Professor of History, King’s College London. His main monographs are Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (2013); The Inquisition: A Global History, 1478–1834 (2009). Recently (co-)edited books: Merchant Cultures (2022), Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World (2021); Inequality in the Portuguese-Speaking World (2018).
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History (Netherlands). Her research focuses on the history of labour, migration and commerce in sub-Saharan Africa. Her latest book with Toby Green and Philip Havik is African Voices from the Inquisition: The Trial of Crispina Peres of Cacheu.
Marco António Nunes da Silva
is Professor of Early Modern History at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). He has attained his Ph.D. in Social History at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). His research interests include the presence and action of the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil. He is the author of Estudos inquisitoriais: poder político, religião e sociedade entre a Europa e o Atlântico (2020).
Christopher Ebert
is Associate Professor of History (Brooklyn College/City University of New York) and studies Dutch and Portuguese global commercial expansion in the early modern period, with an emphasis on Brazil. He is currently collaborating with Thiago Krause on a global history of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil’s first capital, from 1549 to 1763.
Thiago Krause
is Assistant Professor at UNIRIO (Brazil) and member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2022–2023). He is interested in social hierarchies, slavery, and inter-imperial trade. He is currently collaborating with Christopher
Anne B. McGinness
is part-time Lecturer in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University and in the Department of Arts and Sciences at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History. Some of the institutes that have supported her research include Fulbright, Mellon, and the European University Institute. Currently she is co-authoring her second article on experiential education.
Bruno Romero Ferreira Miranda
is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil. His research focuses on colonial Brazil and the role Indigenous peoples played in the Dutch and Portuguese overseas expansions. He is the author of Gente de Guerra (2014) and Peter Hansen Hajstrup. Viagem ao Brasil, 1644–1654 (2016).
Amélia Polónia
is Professor of Early Modern History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Porto. Her scientific interests include the history of seaports, transfers between oceans and informal mechanisms of empire building. She has recently published on the role of women as brokers and go-betweens and the environmental impact of overseas European colonization. She is a member of MOVES - Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Joint Doctorate (http://projectmoves.eu/).
José Manuel Santos Pérez
is Lecturer of American History and director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Salamanca. His most recent publications include Redes y circulación en Brasil durante la Monarquía Hispánica, 1580–1640 (edited with A. P. Megiani and J. L. Ruiz-Peinado Alonso, 2021), and Diálogo de las Grandezas de Brasil (attributed to Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão), edition and translation into Spanish (2019).