Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His award-winning books include
How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (2001),
Puritan Conquistadors (2006), and
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (2007). He is the editor of
Entangled Histories, Severed Archives: The British and Iberian Atlantics, 1500–1800 (2017). He has also coedited
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (2013) and the
Princeton Handbook to Atlantic History (2014).
Erik R. Seeman, Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), is a historian of religion in the early modern Atlantic world. Seeman is the author of Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (1999), Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800 (2010), and The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America (2011). His current book project is "Speaking with the Dead in the English Atlantic World."
