Anthony Grafton (B01)

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of over 20 books and editor or co-editor of over 20 more, most recently Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, MA, 2020) and, with Maren Elisabeth Schwab, The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Princeton, 2022). In addition to nearly 200 scholarly articles in journals and collected volumes, he has written extensively on early modern and modern intellectual history for outlets such as the London Review of Books, New York Times, New Republic, New York Review of Books, and The Nation.

Nicholas Popper (B01)

Nicholas Popper is Associate Professor of History at William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, and Editor of Books at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. From 2017 to 2022 he was Book Review Editor for the William & Mary Quarterly, the premier journal for early American history. He is author of Walter Ralegh’s 'History of the World' and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (Chicago, 2012), and The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain (Chicago, 2023).

William H. Sherman (B01)

William H. Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. In addition to editing many collected volumes, special issues and editions of Renaissance plays, he is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (1998) and Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (2008). He is currently finishing a study of visual marginalia called The Reader’s Eye (Reaktion), and a history of codes and ciphers called The Cryptographic Renaissance (Oxford).