Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch is the Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity. Her area of research is the cultural and social history of the Middle Ages and her research has contributed to the history of the crusades, memory and history, and medieval Cistercian monastic life. She is the author of Monastic Spaces and their Meanings (2001), Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination (2011), War and Memory at the time of the Fifth Crusade (2019) and Crusades and Violence (2023).

Dr Aydogan Kars is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Monash University. He specialises on Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on medieval theology, philosophy, and mysticism. He is the author of Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam (2019) and Umar al-Suhrawardī: Studies, Editions, Translations (2022).

Michael Champion is Acting Director, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry Associate Dean (Research), Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic (2022) and Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza (2014).

Tatiana is an ancient Greek cultural historian with a particular focus on the intersections of science, technology, and religion in Greco-Roman worlds. She is currently Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. Tatiana is the author of Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and the co-editor of Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Celeste McNamara a historian of early modern Italy, focusing on religious and popular culture. She is currently an assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. She is the author of The Bisho’s Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy (2020). Celeste is co-editor of the Journal of Religious History.

Dr Miles Pattenden is Program Director of the Europaeum, Oxford and a researcher at Deakin University. He is a historian of the Catholic Church and the political history of Italy and Spain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. He is the author of Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700 (2017) and Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (2013). Miles is co-editor of the Journal of Religious History.

Leigh T.I. Penman is a historian of ideas who received a PhD from the University of Melbourne in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2009. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of London (Goldsmiths), and the University of Queensland. He is the author of Hope and Heresy: The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture (2019), and The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism (2020).

Paul Watt is an adjunct professor of musicology at The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017), The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England (2018) and Music, Morality and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2024). He is currently writing a book on a cultural history of Gregorian chant in Australia. Paul is editorial manager for the Journal of Religious History.