Sohum Pal is a PhD student in the History of the Atlantic World. His focus is on the connections between slavery in the colonial Americas, the development of debt, and the development of risk as an ontological category. He is also a freelance book critic with a focus...

Dimitris Mitsopoulos is a Ph.D. student in modern European history and a Richard Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests mainly focus on the history of illicit trade, trafficking, and criminality in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean....