Barker is a historian of slavery and the slave trade in the late medieval Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Hartung is a scholar of early Christianity and late antiquity. His most recent work focuses on liturgical poems and the formation of Christian imagination and identity in the eastern Roman empire in the fourth century.

Firoz studies “resilience-based” approaches to humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, exploring intersections between humanitarianism, ethics and forced migration in the Middle East.

Shyla Gonzalez-Dogan is a community-based scholar that focuses on community-led organizing as a remedy for social issues. Her research centers primarily on identity formation and practices of inclusion and exclusion.

Liew is a scholar of the premodern Islamic world. His research interests include the history of Islamic political thought, Islamic scholarly and intellectual culture, and Islamic historical and biographical writings.

Chelsea Haines researches modern and contemporary art and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East; intersections between modernism and (inter)nationalism; and histories of museums and exhibitions.

Kroot is an archaeologist whose theoretical and methodological interests include political economy in past societies, stone tool analysis, and collaborative and community-based research methods.