Jeff Fynn-Paul, PhD (2005), University of Toronto, is Lecturer of Economic and Social History at Leiden University. He has published several monographs and articles on urban history and slavery, focusing on late medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. Among other awards, he is recipient of the 2016 European History Quarterly Prize.

Damian Alan Pargas, Ph.D. (2009), Leiden University, is Lecturer of Economic and Social History at Leiden University. He has published several monographs and articles on American Slavery in the nineteenth century. He is recipient and supervisor of the NWO Vidi project "Beacons of Freedom: Slave Refugees in North America, 1800-1860".