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).

Laura Rademaker is an ARC DECRA research fellow at the Australian National University. Her current project looks at the history of Indigenous self-determination in Australia. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission (2018) on language and cross-cultural exchange at Christian missions to Aboriginal people, awarded the 2020 Hancock Prize. Her work explores the possibilities of ‘cross-culturalising’ history, interdisciplinary histories as well as oral history and memory. She is interested in religion, gender, secularisation, and ‘deep history’.

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).

Kirk Essary is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on religious and intellectual history in late medieval and early modern Europe, with a special interest in Christian humanism, reception history (of classical and biblical texts), the Protestant Reformation, the relationship between philosophy and theology, and the history of emotions. He is the author of The Renaissance of Feeling: Erasmus and Emotion (2024).

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).

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.