Karl Heinz Arenz
is Professor at the Federal University of Pará (ufpa), in Belém, working at the Faculty of History and the Postgraduate Program in Social History of Amazonia. The focus of his research is the Colonial Amazonian Society (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), especially the complex relationship between Indigenous populations, Jesuit missionaries and Portuguese authorities. In 2019, he was co-editor of a colonial dictionary of the Tupi language, which was widely spoken in the Amazon Region.
Rolf Bauer
is an economic and social historian. He is interested in the history of modern South Asia, drugs, commodity frontiers, disasters and peasant studies. In 2019, he published his Ph.D. thesis The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India with Brill. Currently, he is guest Professor for modern South Asia at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the history department at Central European University.
Dina Bolokan
is Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Bolokan’s work deals with the political economy of labour migration within the agricultural sector in Europe. Her main research areas and interests are located within the fields of decolonial thought, postcolonial and post-Soviet studies, critical border studies, and feminist epistemologies.
Juan Carmona
is Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos iii de Madrid. He has published widely on rural institutions, organizations, and conflicts, including, with James Simpson, the book Why Democracy Failed. The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War (2020).
Debojyoti Das
is an anthropologist of South Asia with a focus on the borderlands of eastern India and the Indian Ocean world. His work is deeply interdisciplinary, bridging his training as an ethnographer with extensive use of visual media and action-based research. His current work focuses on land relations, climate change, migration, and sustainable development issues among marginalised
Josef Ehmer
is Professor Emeritus of Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna and Associate Fellow at the International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at the Humboldt-University Berlin. His research encompasses European social history from the early modern period to the present day, which includes work and the worker, the family, ageing and old age, and migration. Currently, his main interest is in the implementation of the life course paradigm into labour history.
Sophie Elpers
works as researcher in ethnology at the Meertens Institute (Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. In her doctoral thesis (University of Amsterdam, 2014) she has investigated the reconstruction of farmhouses in the Netherlands during and after the Second World War in the context of fierce discussions about national identity, tradition and modernization. Her current research focusses on (contemporary) rural vernacular architectures, everyday life in the countryside, images of rurality, processes of heritagization and musealization, and the history of ethnology. Sophie Elpers is section editor of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. She teaches critical heritage studies at the University of Bonn, Germany, and is executive vice president of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (sief). Sophie Elpers is also a staff member “research and development” at the Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage where her research is on the relation between intangible and tangible heritage, with a specific focus on museum work.
Leida Fernandez-Prieto
is a Researcher at Institute of History at Higher Council for Scientific Research in Madrid. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Havana, Cuba. She has been a Wilbur Marvin visiting scholar at drclas, Harvard University, for the academic year 2015–16. She has also been visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Fernandez is the author of two books, Cuba Agrícola: mito y tradición, 1878–1920, and Espacio de poder, ciencia y agricultura: el Círculo de Hacendados. Likewise, she is the author of “Islands of Knowledge: Science and Agriculture in the History of Latin America and the Caribbean” (Isis, 2013). Fernandez specializes in studies
Katherine Jellison
is Professor of History and Director of the Central Region Humanities Center at Ohio University. She is past president of the Agricultural History Society and past co-chair of the Rural Women’s Studies Association. Her publications include Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (1993), It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005 (2008), and a forthcoming book (with Steven D. Reschly) about Old Order Amish women. Her commentary on gender and politics appears frequently in such media outlets as the bbc, cnn, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Alexander Keese
is Professor of African History at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. He was the principal investigator of erc Starting Grant ForcedLabourAfrica (n° 240898, 2010–2015) comparing forms of compulsory labour in West and Central Africa under colonial rule and beyond. He is the author of Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding & Representing Group Identifications in Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960) (2016).
Rachel Kurian
is International Labour Economics (emerita) at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Recent relevant publications include (with Kumari Jayawardena) “Indebtedness, Socio-cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations” in Richard Allen (eds) Slavery and Bonded Labour in Asia, 1250–1900 (2022), “Plantation Patriarchy and Structural Violence in Maurits Hassankhan et al, (eds) Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora (2016), Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and Protest (2015) and “State, Citizenship and Democratic Deficits: Multiple Patriarchies and Women Workers on Sri Lankan Plantations” in Jayadeva Uyangoda (eds.), Local Government and Local Democracy in Sri Lanka: Institutional and Social Dimensions (2015).
A. Lozaanba Khumbah
was a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His primary
Rafael Marquese
is Professor of History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of Administração & Escravidão. Ideias sobre a gestão da agricultura escravista brasileira (1999); Feitores do Corpo, Missionários da Mente. Senhores, letrados e o controle dos escravos nas Américas, 1660–1860 (2004); Slavery and Politics. Brazil and Cuba, 1790–1850 (2016); Os Tempos Plurais da Escravidão no Brasil. Ensaios de História e Historiografia (2020); Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery. A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (2021). He is currently working on a book project on the global history of coffee and slavery.
Rogério Naques Faleiros
is Professor at the Department of Economics and at the Graduate Program in Social Policy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (ufes), Brazil. He is currently the Dean of Planning and Institutional Development at ufes. He has researched economic history and Brazilian social thought.
Janina Puder
is a trained labour sociologist. Currently she is a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She did her Ph.D. in the bmbf sponsored Junior Research Group “Bioeconomy and Social Inequalities.” Thereby, she investigated in various field stays the exploitation of low-skilled migrant workers in the Malaysian palm oil sector. Here research interests include labour migration, political economy, theory of capitalism, socio-ecological transformation and social classes.
Alessandro Stanziani
is Professor, ehess, in Global History and Research Director at cnrs. Since 2014, he is Leader and French leader of the international consortium Global History Collaborative (Princeton, Tokyo University, Humboldt and Freie University, ehess, Paris). Since 2006 he is member of the steering committee of the European Network of Global History, he is member of the Indian labor History Association, the Economic History Association, International Labor Association and Network. His main Interests and fields are: Global history;
James Simpson
is Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Carlos iii de Madrid. Among his many publications are Spanish Agriculture: The Long Siesta, 1765–1965 (1995), Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914 (2011) and, with Juan Carmona, Why Democracy Failed. The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish Civil War (2020).
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
is Professor of economic and social history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Among other publications, she authored the monograph Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java. Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections, 1830–1940 (2019).
Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza
is Associate Researcher at the Institute for Economic & Social History at the University of Göttingen and member of the Centre for Global Migration Studies. The author received his Ph.D. in Development Economics from the same university. His research focuses on the relationship between economic history and long run development, particularly in nineteenth century Latin America. His fields of specialization are in migration economics, labor history, contract theory, and education history.