Yahya Araz teaches courses on Ottoman history at Dokuz Eylül University (İzmir) with an emphasis on the early modern period. He completed his PhD Dissertation at the same university, entitled, "Klasik Dönem Osmanlı Toplumunda Müslim-Gayrimüslim İlişkileri Bağlamında Lise Tarih Ders Kitaplarında "Öteki" Sorunu." He is interested in the history of children and childhood in the Ottoman Empire and the author of Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocuk Olmak: 16. Yüzyıldan 19. Yüzyıl Başlarına (Kitap Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2013. Republished in 2017). He has published a number of articles on the changing legal and social aspects of the childhood as his works also deal with the history of non-Muslims, women and slavery in the Ottoman world. He is currently working a book project that rethinks the nature of domestic child labor in late Ottoman İstanbul.
Rukmini Barua is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Her current research project explores questions of love and intimacy in postcolonial Delhi, with a focus on the urban working poor. She completed her PhD in History from the University of Göttingen. Her dissertation, which examined dynamics of political mediation and property relations in industrial areas of Ahmedabad, is currently being revised as a monograph.
Stefan Berger is Full Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an honorary professor at Cardiff University in the UK. His research interests include comparative labour history, the history of deindustrialisation and industrial heritage, national identity and nationalism studies, and the history of historiography. More recently he published a special issue on ‘New Trends in German Labour History’ in the journal German History (2019), another special issue (with Steven High) on ‘(De-)Industrial Heritage’ in Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and the edited collection Constructing Industrial Pasts (Berghahn Books, 2020).
Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and Professor of Comparative International Social History at the VU University also in Amsterdam. He published widely on labor history, international migration, and commodity production. His more recent monographs are The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia. Industrial Production 1770–2010 (Cambridge University Press 2013) and The Making of Periphery. How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor (Columbia University Press, 2019). He is currently writing a global history of sugar.
Camille Buat is a PhD candidate in history at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris (France) and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen (Germany). Her dissertation looks at histories of labour circulation and settlement in colonial and post-colonial South Asia.
Hulya Canbakal (hcanbakal@sabanciuniv.edu) is an independent scholar and network faculty at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her BA in History from Bogazici University (1986) and her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University (1999). She taught early modern Ottoman history at Sabanci University until 2017. Her earlier work centers around political and legal culture of Ottoman Anatolia. She has worked on Ottoman probate inventories since 2008 in connection with a nationally-funded project on wealth and inequality. Her current interests include the Ottoman property regime, gender, labor and long-term change at the intersection of economic, legal and social history.
Alpay Filiztekin (alpayf@sabanciuniv.edu) is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Individual and Academic Development at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his BA degree in Economics from Bogazici University (1989) and earned his Ph.D. also in Economics from Boston College (1994). He worked as an assistant professor at Koc University, Istanbul (1994–2000), joined Sabanci University in 2011 and served as Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences between 2013 and 2016. He spent three years as a professor of economics and as the Dean of Business Faculty at Özyeğin University (2016–2019). His research interest is mostly in empirical studies of within and between regional disparities in economic development, labor market frictions, returns to education. His recent interest is on inequalities in Turkey. He has also conducted research about price dynamics and productivity. He has published several articles in scholarly journals and co-edited a book on Turkish Economy.
Roberta Garruccio, Ph.D. in History of European Society, is assistant professor in Economic History at the Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication - University of Milan. Over the last decade she has been practicing Oral History, investigating firms, organizations and markets through in depth interviews. She has been collecting several oral archives, authoring and editing related publications on behalf of several institutions. Since 2012, she has also been a member of the steering committee of AISO (Italian Oral History Association). She is now working in the field of Deindustrialization studies.
Melinda Harlov-Csortán studied (among many other subjects) history, nationalism and cultural heritage management in both Hungarian and English-speaking educational institutions. Since 2006, she has been working in diverse cultural institutions too that made her able to create network with members at her researched area and to experience the current practices. She has finished her doctoral classes at Atelier Department of European Social Sciences and Historiography of Eötvös Loránd University and is currently finalizing her dissertation. Her research topic is the establishment of UNESCO World Heritage Cultural sites in Hungary as a combination of the international norms and the national circumstances. Her comparative approach is ensured also by becoming member of international research teams and attending both national and foreign scholarly programs. She has presented her research at over thirty Hungarian and international conferences and published her findings at both types of scholarly publications too.
Karin Hofmeester is Research Director at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and Professor of Jewish Culture at the University of Antwerp. She works on global labour relations, luxury commodity chains with a focus on diamonds and modern Jewish history. Her publications include The Joy and Pain of Work. Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 (2012, with Christine Moll-Murata, eds.), Luxury in Global Perspective. Objects and Practices, 1600–2000 (2016, with Bernd Grewe, eds.), Conquerors, Employers, and Arbiters: States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500–2000 (2016, with Gijs Kessler and Christine Moll-Murata, eds.), Colonialism, Institutional Change and Shift in Labour Relations (2017, with Pim de Zwart, eds), and Handbook Global History of Work (2017, with Marcel van der Linden, eds.).
Silvia Hunold Lara, professor of History at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, has published Campos da Violência (1988), Fragmentos Setecentistas (2007), edited Ordenações Filipinas, livro V (1999), and organized a collection of African slave laws in Portuguese America published by J. Andrés-Gallego (ed.), Nuevas Aportaciones a la Historia Jurídica de Iberoamérica (2000). With Joseli M. N. Mendonça she edited Direitos e Justiças no Brasil (2006), and with Gustavo Pacheco, Memória do Jongo (2007). She is currently working on the history of Palmares, the largest and longest-lived maroon settlement in the history of slavery in Brazil.
George Steve Jaramillo is Assistant Professor of Design for Heriot-Watt University at its Scottish Borders Campus in Galashiels. As part of the School of Textiles and Design, his main focus is on cross-disciplinary design methods and innovating on traditional design thinking processes. His research deals with the interplay between landscape, heritage, and sensory methods. In understanding these ideas, new creative industries and innovation can be developed to create the future heritage of the region. He was also Studio Lead of the MDES programme in Design Innovation at The Glasgow School of Art and completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in cultural geography.
İrfan Kokdaş is an Assistant Professor of History at İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University specializing in the early modern economic transition in the Ottoman world. He was awarded his doctoral degree (diss. title: “When the Countryside is Free: Urban Politics, Local Autonomy and the Changing Social Structure in Ottoman Salonika, 1740-1820”) at Binghamton University–New York. He has published articles on the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Balkans and Western Anatolia (“Land ownership, tax farming and the social structure of local credit markets in the Ottoman Balkans, 1685–1855,” and “Sheep, Cotton, Wheat and Commerce: Changes and Continuities in the Demoeconomic System of Çiftliks in Western Anatolia During the 1745–1845 Period,” forthcoming in Halcyon Days in Crete X, Crete University Press). He is currently working a book project of commons in Ottoman Western Anatolia.
Jan Lucassen is Professor Emeritus International and Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. At the International Institute in Amsterdam he was Research Director (1988–2000) Senior Researcher (2000–2011), and Honorary Fellow from 2012. He is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on global migration and labor history, including Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 (1986), A Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European perspective (1995, with Karel Davids, eds.), Global Labour History (2006, ed.) Wages and Currency. Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (2007, ed.), and Globalising Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st centuries) (2014, with Leo Lucassen, eds.). Forthcoming: Work. A Concise History (Yale University Press, 2020/2021).
Dr. Stefan Moitra studied history and media science in Bochum and Glasgow. In 2011, he received his doctorate from University College London with a thesis on cinema and worker culture. He currently works as Scientific Assistant at the German Mining Museum Bochum as part of their Mining Archives and Library. He is currently editing a special issue of the journal Bios, on the results of the group's Oral History workshop in Bochum in 2017. In addition to the social and knowledge history of mining, he deals with (visual) representations of work and industry. Another focus is on the remembrance culture of mining, especially with regard to oral history, as well as a comparative history of de-industrialization and its after-effects.
Nauber Gavski da Silva is a historian whose PhD thesis focused on the creation of the minimum wage in Brazil, and the political disputes about its meaning in Porto Alegre, from the 1940s to the 1960s. Currently, he is writing an essay about the conflicting definitions of contemporary slavery in São Paulo state, Brazil. His forthcoming paper, “Os carniceiros: trabalhadores de pedreiras entre a autonomia e a escravidão contemporânea (2000-2013),” discusses the relations between traditional autonomous occupations and contemporary slavery. He is also an editor of Revista Mundos do Trabalho and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Kirsten Weld is a professor of Latin American history at Harvard University. She is the author of the award-winning book Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014), as well as articles and essays in Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Radical History Review, NACLA Report on the Americas, and various other scholarly and popular outlets. She is currently writing a history of the Spanish Civil War's impact and legacies in Latin America.
