Elena Baldi is Byzantine Numismatics Cataloger and Linked-Open-Data Coordinator, Princeton University. With a BA in Archaeology (York, UK), MA in Conservation of Historical Objects (Durham, UK) and PhD in Numismatics (Bologna, Italy), her research interests are Byzantine and Ostrogothic Numismatics, and Numismatic Studies of the Late Antique Mediterranean, specifically Ravenna (Italy) and Butrint (Albania). 

Daniel Berardino is a PhD student in History at the University of California-Berkeley, where he studies the intersection of political religion, nationalism, and socialism in modern East Central Europe and Russia. Before coming to Berkeley, Daniel received his MA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University in 2023 and has studied Slavonic paleography at The Ohio State University.

Olena Chernenko is a Ukrainian archaeologist with a PhD in 2005 from the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 1996, she has been a staff member at the T.G. Shevchenko Chernihiv National University. Following the beginning of the war in Ukraine, she has been working from 2022 as an adjunct professor in the Department of Medieval and Modern Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. For many years, she led research on cultural heritage sites in Ukraine. She is the author of more than 200 scientific and methodological works. Her scientific interests include the archaeology of Eastern Europe during the medieval period, with a particular focus on architectural archaeology.

Barbara Crostini is Senior Lecturer in Church History, Art History and Cultural Studies at the Newman Institute, Uppsala, and Adjunct Lecturer in Greek at Uppsala University.

Angus Docherty recently completed an MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford. He is interested in poetry (Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Modernist), architecture (ecclesiastical or otherwise), aesthetics and political history, among other competing obsessions.

Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu is Professor of the History of Ideas & Byzantine and Medieval Culture at the University of Oxford. She teaches and researches topics pertaining to philosophy and art.

Sopio Gagoshidze is a PhD candidate in Art History at Rutgers University and a Dodge Avenir Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She specializes in South Caucasian and Byzantine art and visual culture and is particularly interested in artistic exchanges between Georgia and Byzantium. Email: s.gagoshidze@rutgers.edu

Jackie Mann, MA, MLIS, is a Librarian at Loyola University Chicago specializing in Early Byzantine art and cultural heritage studies. She can be contacted at jmann@luc.edu.

Andrei Mirea is a PhD student at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. His main fields of interest are medieval Moldavia (with an emphasis on social history, economic history, and taxation), the history of the medieval Black Sea, and more generally the Romanian Middle Ages.

Cahit Mete Oguz is a historian specializing in the history of Medieval Paphlagonia alongside Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rural society, and the history of everyday life. He received his PhD from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and his MA from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He also has a BSc degree in Physics and is versed in digital humanities methodologies (e.g., GIS, NLP). ORCID: 0009-0008-7158-3369 / Email: cahitmeteoguz@gmail.com

Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University and a scholar of medieval eastern Europe. His most recent books include Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe (Routledge, 2023) and Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen (Routledge 2024).

Erik Thunø is Professor of Art History at Rutgers University and specializes in the visual culture of the medieval South Caucasus.

Grace Toshach is Gallery Manager at Doyal Auctioneers and Appraisers, Charleston. She received a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross in art history and studio art.

Simone Tricca is an undergraduate student of history, Russian, and museums at Smith College. Their research interests center on the material culture of the medieval Kyivan Rus and the Orthodox church. They can be contacted at simone.tricca99@gmail.com.

Lin Ying is a Professor of Ancient World History in the History Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) who specializes in Byzantine History and China-Byzantine contacts along the Silk Road.