Constantin Ardeleanu
is currently Senior Researcher at the Institute for South-East European Studies and New Europe College—Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest. His research interests include the social and economic history of Danubian Europe and the Black Sea region since the 18th century. He has published articles on various topics related to the opening of the Black Sea to international trade and shipping, as well as the market integration of South-East European port cities. His most recent book is Steamboat Modernity. Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860 (Central European University Press, 2024).
Adrian-Bogdan Ceobanu
is Associate Professor of History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. He earned his Ph.D. in History in 2013 with a dissertation about Romanian-Russian relations between 1878 and 1893. His books include Politică și diplomație la sfârșitul secolului XIX. Din istoria relațiilor româno-ruse (1878–1899) (Iași, 2017) and Secretarii generali ai Ministerului Afacerilor Străine (1878–1918). Studii și documente (Iași, 2019). He is the co-editor of Romanian Diplomatic Corps (1918–1947): Recruitments, Professional Ways, Intellectual Profiles (Constance, 2020), Romanian Diplomacy in the 20th Century. Biographies, Institutional Pathways, International (Berlin, 2021) and most recently, Between Three Empires: Consular Network of Romania (1879–1918) (Istanbul, 2024).
Ovidiu Cristea
is Senior Researcher at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History in Bucharest and Associate Professor of History at the “Ovidiu” University in Constanța. His books include The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century (co-author Liviu Pilat; Brill, 2017) and Acest Domn de la Miazănoapte. Ștefan cel Mare în documente inedite venețiene (Cetatea de Scaun, 2018). He is also the editor of two collections of studies entitled From Pax Mongolica to Pax Ottomanica. War, Religion and Trade in Northwestern Black Sea Region (14–16th centuries) (co-editor Liviu Pilat; Brill, 2020) and Călători străini despre Țările Române. Supliment III (several other co-editors; Editura Academiei Române, 2023). Cristea is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Revista istorică.
is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 (Brill, 2019). He is also the editor of two collections of studies entitled East Central Europe and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 (Routledge, 2022), as well as of a reader for the study of Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300 (University of Toronto Press, 2024). Curta is the editor of the Brill online Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and co-editor of the Brill series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450.”
Alessandro Flavio Dumitrașcu
is a researcher at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy. He received his Ph.D. in History at the University of Bucharest in 2020. His basic areas of research are medieval Italian relations with South-Eastern Europe and the Greek diaspora in Italy. He recently published his thesis, entitled Genoa, the Lower Danube and Moldavia in the 13th–15th Centuries (Brăila, 2021), and has authored several studies about this topic in academic journals from Romania and other countries.
Elena Firea
is Assistant Professor in Medieval History and Art History at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. Her recent research focuses on the cult of saints and the veneration of relics in late medieval and early modern Moldavia, mainly by exploring their visual and material expression. She is the author of Nașterea unui cult. Sfântul Ioan cel Nou de la Suceava și reprezentările sale medievale (sec. XV–XVII) (Cluj-Napoca, 2022), as well as of several studies and articles on the subject. She is the executive editor of the journal Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Historia Artium.
Ștefan S. Gorovei
is an emeritus professor in the History Department of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași, Romania, and a senior researcher at the “A. D. Xenopol” History Institute in that same city. His research interests include Romanian medieval and early modern history, ecclesiastical history, genealogy, heraldry, urban history, and historiography. He is the author of: Dragoș și Bogdan, întemeietorii
Sorin Grigoruță
is Scientific Researcher at “A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History in Iași. He is a member of the editorial board of the national collection of sources Documenta Romaniae Historica (the series for Moldova). His books include Epidemiile de ciumă în Moldova la începutul secolului al XIX-lea. Studiu și documente (Iași, 2020) and Boli, epidemii și asistență medicală în Moldova (1700–1831) (Iași, 2017). He is also the co-editor of Power, Aristocracies and Propaganda: Forms of Legitimizing and Challenging Rulership in France and Moldavia (16th–17th Centuries) (Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 2023).
Ioan-Augustin Guriță
is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași. His books include Gavriil Callimachi, mitropolit al Moldovei (1760–1786) (Iași, 2017), and “Ținând cu putere cuvântul vieții.” Studii și documente privitoare la istoria bisericească și culturală a Moldovei (sec. XVIII–XIX) (Iași, 2021). He is also co-author of Integrarea istoriei lumii în cultura românească. Traduceri de texte istorice din limba germană la sfârșitul secolului al XVIII-lea și începutul secolului al XIX-lea (Iași, 2022). Guriță is co-editor of Documente privitoare la istoria mănăstirilor Dohiar (Muntele Athos) și Slobozia lui Enache (Ialomița) (Iași, 2019), Re-configuring Romanian Culture on its Way Towards Modernity. Romanian Translation Practice in the Age of Enlightenment (1770–1830) (Konstanz, 2022), and Power, Aristocracies and Propaganda: Forms of Legitimizing and Challenging Rulership in France and Moldavia (16th–17th Centuries) (Konstanz, 2023).
Sergean Osman
received her Ph.D. in History from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj- Napoca, with a dissertation on the relations between the Crimean Khanate and the Romanian Principalities between 1692 and 1783. Specializing in early modern history, Osman explores the political, cultural, and diplomatic
Radu G. Păun
was a researcher at the Institute of South-East European Studies in Bucharest between 1993 and 2007. He is now chargé de recherche at the Centre d’études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. His main fields of research are the political theology and the representations of power in the post-Byzantine period, the history of Greco-Romanian political elites during the Ottoman era (16th–18th centuries), the relations between Mount Athos and the Orthodox world and the relations between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe. His most recent book is Du combat pour la “juste foi” au “péché politique.” Pour une histoire du Synodikon de l’Orthodoxie (Vienna, 2022; co-authored with Ivan Biliarsky).
Nagy Pienaru
is the Editor-in-Chief of Studia et Documenta Turcologica and a senior editor of Revista de Istorie. His major research interests are in the relations between the Romanian Principalities and the Ottoman Empire between the 14th and the 19th centuries, especially the history of the Black Sea region in the period of Ottoman domination, Ottoman travelers through Romanian lands, Ottoman Dobrudja, the relations between Romanians and Tatars, and Ottoman documents from the archives in Romania and Turkey. Pienaru is co-author of The Historical Heritage of Tatars (Cluj-Napoca, 2010). He has published many articles and studies on Ottoman-Moldavian-Tatar relations.
Liviu Pilat
is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. His books include The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century (Brill, 2018) and Moldova, sfânta coroană și regii Jagielloni: vasalitate, putere și gândire politică (1387–1526) (Cetatea de Scaun, 2023). He is the co-editor of the collection of studies From Pax Mongolica to Pax Ottomanica. War, Religion and Trade in the Northwestern Black Sea Region, 14th-16th Centuries (Brill, 2020).
is an emeritus professor of History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași. He is the author of “Corpul politic” în cultura europeană. Din Evul Mediu pînă în epoca modernă (Polirom, 2017), Doi călători elvețieni și lumea românească la începuturile modernității (1808–1811): Léonard Revilliod și Charles René Pictet de Rochemont (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Publishing House, 2021), and Istoriografia română recentă. Curente, tendințe, aspecte instituționale (University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2024). In 2022, Platon was the recipient of the award Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France.
Laurențiu Rădvan
is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. He has published Orașele din Țara Românească până la sfârșitul secolului al XVI-lea (Iași, 2004) and At Europe’s Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities (Brill, 2010). He is also the co-editor of Social and Political Elites in Eastern and Central Europe (15th–18th Centuries) (School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL, 2015) and initiated a series of volumes of studies on various topics of urban history in the Romanian lands; five volumes of that series have so far been published.
Victor Spinei
is President of the History and Archaeology Section of the Romanian Academy, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology in Iași, and professor emeritus at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași. He coordinated archaeological excavations on numerous settlement and cemetery sites in Moldavia, pertaining to the Middle Ages. He is the author of Moldavia in the 11th–14th Centuries (Bucharest, 1986), The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century (Amsterdam, 2006; with a recent Chinese translation published in Beijing, 2024); The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century (Leiden/Boston, 2009), and Les Princes Martyrs Boris et Gleb. Iconographie et Canonisation (Oxford, 2011). He is also the editor of the series Florilegium magistrorum historiae archaeologiaeque Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi, Bibliotheca Archaeologica Moldaviae, Honoraria, and Basarabica.
Alice Isabella Sullivan
is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. She specializes in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres in the period between the 14th and 16th centuries. She has published on art historical topics related to
Maria Magdalena Székely
is a professor in the History Department of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași, Romania, and a researcher at the “A. D. Xenopol” History Institute in that same city. Her research interests include Romanian medieval and early modern history, genealogy, prosopography, cultural anthropology, and the history of everyday life. She is the author of Sfetnicii lui Petru Rareș. Studiu prosopografic (Iași, 2002); Princeps omni laude maior. O istorie a lui Ștefan cel Mare (Suceava, 2005; 2nd ed., 2024; co-authored with Ștefan S. Gorovei); Maria Asanina Paleologhina. O prințesă bizantină pe tronul Moldovei (Suceava, 2006; co-authored with Ștefan S. Gorovei), and Grădina rozelor. Femei din Moldova, Țara Românească și Transilvania (sec. XVII–XIX) (Bucharest, 2015; co-authored with Violeta Barbu, Kinga S. Tüdős and Angela Jianu).