Daniel Domingues da Silva is an Associate Professor of History at Rice University, U.S. He is the host of the website SlaveVoyages.org and studies slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.

Hans Hägerdal is a Professor in History at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and has written about political, social and cultural processes in early modern East and Southeast Asia.

Angelina Kalashnikova is a postdoctoral fellow at Kiel University, Germany. Her research interests include source studies, diplomatics, and the incorporation of Siberia in Muscovy.

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva is a Senior Researcher at IISG, the Netherlands, specializing on global labour history, slave trade, slavery, colonialism, and business history.