Bernard D. Cooperman Bernard D. Cooperman currently holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History at the University of Maryland.There he has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and of the Miller Center for Historical Research. He has held visiting fellowships in Jerusalem, Philadelphia, Hamburg, Moscow, Pisa, and San Diego. He has edited five volumes of scholarly essays, and translated and edited works such as Jacob Katz' Tradition and Crisis (1993) and Pauline Wengeroff's 19th-century memoir Rememberings (2000) which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He has published over thirty scholarly essays on aspects of early modern Jewishhistory, historiography, and biography as well as on the significance of the Italian ghetto and spatial history.

He is currently preparing a book-length study of the development of institutions of self-government as a sign of Jewish modernity. Serena Di Nepi is Associate professor of Early Modern History at Sapienza - University of Rome She is an expert on the history of religious minorities Early Modern Italy, with a special focus on Rome and the Papal States. The English and revised edition of her first book Surviving the ghetto has been published by Brill in 2020. Her second book (I confini della salvezza. Schiavitu, conversione, liberta nella Roma di eta moderna. Roma: Viella 2022) stresses the history of Muslim slavery and conversion in the Papal States on the basis of new and unknown sources. Germano Maifreda is professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He is an expert in the European political and economic history of the Reformation and Counter-reformation, working at the intersection between business history, religious minorities, and institutional discriminations.

His books include: The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge 2022); The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era (Routledge, 2017); From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution (Ashgate, 2012). His biography of cardinal Giovanni Morone written with Massimo Firpo (published in Italy in 2019) is currently under translation with Brill in the Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 Series.