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Jaume Aurell is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Navarra (Spain). His publications include Historians’ Autobiography as Historiographical Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2025); 30 Great Books That Made History: A Global Canon (Polity, 2025); What is a Classic in History: The Making of a Historical Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (Routledge, 2016); and Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Berber Bevernage is Associate Professor of historical theory at the Department of History at Ghent University (Belgium). His research focuses on the dissemination, attestation and contestation of historical discourse and historical culture in post-conflict situations. He has published in journals such as History and Theory, Rethinking History, Memory Studies, Social History, and History Workshop Journal. Berber is (co)founder of TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt, an interdisciplinary research forum that focuses on popular, academic, and artistic dealings with the past. Together with colleagues he established the International Network for Theory of History (INTH), which aims to foster collaboration among theorists of history around the world. 

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François Dosse is a professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Est Créteil (Paris 12) and, since 1998, an associate researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle de l’université de Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has been a member of the editorial board of Raison Présente since 1996, a collaborator of O Olho da Historia: Revista de Historia Contemporanea since 1999, and a member of the scientific committee of Historia y Grafia since 2000. His publications include Michel Serres: La joie de savoir (2024), Les vérités du roman: Une histoire du temps présent (2023), Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: Biographie croisée (2007), and Histoire du structuralisme, 2 vol. (1991–1992).

Patrick ffrench is Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London. He is the author of five books: The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1996); The Cut: Reading Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’œil (2000); After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (2007); Thinking Cinema with Proust (2018) and Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism, Poetics (2019). He is co-editor, with Roland François Lack, of The Tel Quel Reader (1998) and, with Ian James, of Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (2005). With Nigel Saint he has coedited and cotranslated Psychopathologies of the Body: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida (2025). 

María Eugenia Gay is a historian and associate professor at the School of History, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. She holds a PhD in history from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and has completed postdoctoral research at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Her work lies at the intersection of historiography, philosophy of history, and intellectual history, with a particular focus on German postwar historiography, hermeneutics, and contemporary debates on historicity, mediation, and epistemic justice. She is the author of La historia tras el desastre: Historiografía alemana de posguerra and coauthor of Historia e identidad: Cómo la teoría histórica moldea la práctica histórica and has published several articles in leading journals. She currently directs two research projects: “Transhistórica: debates e intervenciones de historia pública y gestión de la cultura histórica” and “Theory and Philosophy of History: Approaches to the Concept and Phenomenon of ‘Mediation.’" She has taught and lectured internationally on theory of history, conceptual history, and public history.

Ethan Kleinberg is Editor-in-Chief of History and Theory and Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University. He works on the acrobatics of modern thought and his wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history, philosophy, comparative literature and religion. His research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, and the theory and philosophy of history. He is the author of Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (2021), Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past (2017), and Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy in France, 1927-61 (2005); he is coeditor, with Ranjan Ghosh, of the volume Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century (2013).

Valeria López Fadul is Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is interested in the philosophy of language and history of science and researches the way knowledge was made and circulated in early Latin America and across the Iberian world. Her book, The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire (JHU Press, 2025), reconstructs the beliefs and practices with which sixteenth-century humanists, missionaries, and crown officials governed Spanish America’s multilingual domains. Work from this project has appeared in Pacific Coast Philology and in the edited volume After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity.

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Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University and the current chair of the History Department. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press, 2013), Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021), and The War on Gender: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She graduated from Brown University with a BA in History and Modern Culture & Media and obtained her PhD in History from Cornell University. 

Joan Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). She is the author most recently of On the Judgment of History and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom. 

Gary Shaw is Professor of History at Wesleyan University and Associate Editor of History and Theory. He specializes in medieval England and teaches European medieval and British history. He also studies the theory and philosophy of history and has edited six theme issues for History and Theory. He has published two books on medieval history, focusing on community and the social self, and is completing a synthetic study called “Travelling to the Future: Networks of Mobility in the Middle Ages.” A coauthored book, News in the Middle Ages, will appear next year. His current interests in the philosophy of history focus on elaborating an ontology of historiographical time, part of a larger project on “History as Worldmaking.”