Blair Apgar is an assistant professor of Art History in the History & Geography department at Elon University. Their broader research spans all things Matilda of Canossa, including the countess’ modern reception across various modern media, as well as her relationship to the issues of gender, patronage, and agency. Their current research has focused primarily on the use of senses and immersion in virtual pilgrimages in medieval ecclesiastical spaces, and the potential uses of three-dimensional models in virtual reality as a research tool.

I am a PhD Candidate in History at Catholic University. My dissertation, "Belongings and Belonging in Medieval East Anglia: Guild, Parish, and Society, 1350-1530," is about the material culture of parish guilds and the people who organized them. Some of my digital project contributions include the Digital Guide to Medieval DC, an interactive pilgrimage map, and a pilot study using Net.Create for social network analysis of Tudor courtiers.

Abby Armstrong Check is an Art History PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Using the French city of Provins as a case study, her dissertation explores the urban identity of late medieval French cities through patterns of patronage, architecture, and material culture. She is also working on medievalism as it pertains to the Joan of Arc Chapel on Marquette University's campus in Milwaukee, WI.

Katherine is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation considers how late-medieval archives shaped notions of posterity in literary writing. Her public facing writing has appeared in Time, Literary Hub, Oxford American Magazine, Public Books, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

Lauren Colwell is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at The Ohio State University. She is currently working on her dissertation project which investigates the textual evidence of food production, practices, and management in early medieval English texts ca. 600 - 1200, arguing that food was both a spiritual and material object that informed the period's environmental consciousness. Lauren is interested in how early medievalist can engage the public through conversations around food history, early medieval material life, and the period's daily concern for the land.

Izzy DeSantis is an art historian who lives in Brooklyn. She studied medieval and modern art history alike, culminating in an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2022. She currently writes for Hyperallergic, and teaches art at the Brooklyn Museum and Textile Arts Center.

Maggie Hawkins is a 3rd year PhD student at UT Austin. Their research focuses on the following: Old English poetry, "Anglo-Saxonisms" after 1800, and nationalist extremism.

Sarina Kuersteiner is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Union College (NY), focusing on a history of authoritative text in processes of state formation from the perspective of marginalia such as poems, images, and prayers added by Italian notaries to official documents. Sarina is also working on questions of legal-institutional and cultural transmission between Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Latin documents and letters. She is a co-founder of the public history project, The Medievalist Toolkit, seeking to build bridges between scholars and public facing professionals in a joint effort to fostering awareness of extremist misuses of the past.

Brian Maxson is professor of history at East Tennessee State University where he specializes in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, mostly recently, A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a current articles editor for Renaissance Quarterly and has received grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Villa I Tatti, the Fulbright Foundation, and others.

Daniel Melleno is an associate professor of pre-modern history at the University of Denver. His work, including his recently published book "Franks and Northmen: From Strangers to Neighbors", focuses on cross-cultural encounter in the early medieval period. As a teacher Daniel expands this interest across the pre-modern world and even into the present, working with students to explore the complex relationships between the medieval past and the our own world.

Isabelle Ostertag is a doctoral candidate researching English medieval architecture under Dr. Lisa Reilly at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “Porta Caeli: Lay Piety and Marian Devotion in the Parochial Lady Chapels of East Anglia,” upends the current linear model of the dissemination of devotional practices from monastic authority downwards through an examination of lay Marian spaces in parish churches.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary. I obtained my PhD at Cornell University in 2022. I teach courses on intercultural and interfaith relations in the literature of the Iberian Middle Ages. My research focuses on interfaith relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, using translation as an analytical tool.

Jason Ray is a PhD candidate and Distinguished Senior Teaching Fellow at Fordham University. His research explores medieval nostalgia and heritage-making in the British Isles and has been supported by the US-UK Fulbright Commission.

Emily Varker is a second year Master's student in Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies. Her academic interests include exploring the relationship between women and power and the application of digital tools in presenting medieval studies to the general public. She is currently working on her thesis, which will be an open access, choice-based digital narrative game exploring both the acquisition of power and struggles with maintaining power through the life of Jeanne of Constantinople, countess of Flanders and Hainaut.

Lora studies Byzantine art and is currently working on her first book as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. She received her PhD from Stanford University and her MA from Tufts University.