Charlie Steinman (he/him/his) is a PhD student in medieval history, working on petty officials and policing in Jewish and Christian communities in Provence and the Languedoc.  He is interested in the experience of power in medieval societies, as well as the...

Ifadha Sifar is a PhD student in international and global history at Columbia, broadly interested in the social history of the Indian Ocean world. Her research currently focuses on the pearl trade in the western Indian Ocean world between the late-nineteenth and early...