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Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreAsaph Ben-Tov (PhD 2007, habilitation 2019) is an early modern historian. His research focuses mostly on the classical tradition and the history of oriental studies. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621–1668): The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist (2021). He is also the coeditor (with Martin Mulsow) of Knowledge and Profanation in Early Modern Europe (2019).Rens Bod is professor of digital humanities and history of the humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on (computational) linguistics, the history of the humanities, and the history of knowledge. Among his books is A New History of the Humanities (2013); his latest book is World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge (2022).Rodrigo Cacho is professor of early modern Iberian and Latin American literature at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Renaissance and baroque cultures and Spanish American colonial literature. His scholarship has been concerned with literary genres such as burlesque and epic poetry and the works of Francisco de Quevedo. He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize.Kevin Chang works on a variety of subjects: science and medicine in early modern Europe, the history of media and publication, comparative studies of the humanities (philology and linguistics in particular), and global history of higher education. He received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has since been working at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy.Moritz Föllmer is associate professor of modern history at the University of Amsterdam. He has previously taught at the University of Leeds, Humboldt University Berlin, and the University of Chicago. His publications on Nazi Germany include Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Culture in the Third Reich (Oxford University Press, 2020).Hampus Östh Gustafsson is a postdoctoral researcher in history at Lund University and in history of science and ideas at Uppsala University. After defending his doctoral thesis on the legitimacy of the humanities in twentieth-century Sweden, he has been engaged in a project on governance and temporalities in the history of universities. With Anders Ekström, he recently edited The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge (Amsterdam University Press, 2022).Isak Hammar is associate professor of history at Lund University. His current project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and analyzes the impact of scholarly journals for the formation of the humanities circa 1840–1920. Together with Johan Östling, he is the editor of the forum section “The Circulation of Knowledge and the History of Humanities” in History of Humanities 6, no. 2 (2021).Inger Kuin is assistant professor of classics at the University of Virginia. Her research concerns the intellectual history of ancient Greece and Rome. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, and coedited and coauthored volumes, Kuin has published a monograph titled Lucian’s Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East (2023), and two books: Diogenes: Leven en denken van een autonome geest (2022) and Leven met de goden: Religie in de oudheid (2018).Joep Leerssen is emeritus professor at the universities of Maastricht and Amsterdam. A comparatist by training, he works on the cultural and intellectual history of national thought and nationalism. Among his books are the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (2nd ed., 2022), National Thought in Europe (3rd ed., 2018), and Comparative Literature in Britain (2019).Suzanne Marchand (PhD, University of Chicago, 1992) is Boyd (University) Professor of European Intellectual History at Louisiana State University. She has written three major monographs, Down from Olympus (1996), German Orientalism in the Age of Empire (2009), and Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (2020) and numerous essays. She is now working on a book tentatively titled Herodotus and the Instabilities of Western Civilization.David L. Marshall is an intellectual historian of Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. He is the author of Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2020). He is professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh and codirector of the Humanities Center there.Herman Paul is professor of the history of the humanities at Leiden University, where he directs the research project “Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History.” He is the author, most recently, of Historians’ Virtues: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the editor of Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2023).Thor Rydin is lecturer in cultural history at Utrecht University. His research concerns the cultural history of European philosophy, aesthetics, and historical thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century. His first book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse, is to appear with Amsterdam University Press in late 2023.David R. Shumway is professor of English and director of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also founding director of the Humanities Center. His books include Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline. He is currently working on an institutional history of theory in literary studies in the United States.Helen Small is Merton Professor of English at the University of Oxford. Her books include The Value of the Humanities (2013), which identifies and tests the arguments most often relied upon by advocates for the humanities. Recent work includes The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time (2022) and an afterword to George Levine, ed., The Question of the Aesthetic (2022) on the significance of disagreement in evaluating aesthetic experience.Sverker Sörlin is professor and cofounder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is a defining public and scholarly voice on the past, present, and future of humanities knowledge and has served on advisory boards of research, environmental, and climate policy for the Swedish government. Among his recent books is Ice Humanities: Living, Thinking, and Working in a Melting World (with Klaus Dodds, Manchester University Press, 2022).Lieske Tibbe is an art historian and was assistant professor at the institute of art history at Radboud University Nijmegen from 1976 until her retirement in 2012. She specializes in art, art theory, and political theory and their mutual relations around 1900, as well as in the history of collections and exhibitions of applied art, on which topics she has published widely.Bas van Bommel is a fellow of classics and literature at University College Utrecht and a university lecturer in classics at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the history of classical scholarship, the Gymnasium, and humanism. 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