CONTRIBUTORS

Aviva Ben-Ur is professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her books include Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825 (2020) and Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History (2009).

John M. Dixon is associate professor at the College of Staten Island and in the PhD Program in history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He currently explores the history of the early modern Atlantic world through the experiences of Jews, crypto-Jews, and conversos. He is the author of The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden (2016).

Laura Newman Eckstein is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her studies focus on Jews in the early Atlantic world (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), with a specific focus on trade networks, material culture, and digital humanities methodologies.

Wim Klooster is professor and Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University. His many books include Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (new edition, 2018) and The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016).

Stanley Mirvis is associate professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair in Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (2020).

Oren Okhovat earned his PhD at the University of Florida. His dissertation focused on Portuguese merchants (Jews and Christians) and their activities across imperial boundaries in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world. He is currently a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in Spain.

Toni Pitock is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of History at Drexel University. She is currently transforming her dissertation, titled “Commerce and Connection: Jewish Merchants, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic World, 1736–1822,” into a monograph.

Yda Schreuder is professor emerita in the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware and research associate at the Hagley Museum and Library. She is the author of Amsterdam’s Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century (2019).

Holly Snyder recently retired as curator of American Historical Collections and the History of Science at the John Hay Library in Providence, Rhode Island. Her dissertation was titled “A Sense of Place: Jews, Identity, and Social Status in Colonial British America, 1654–1831.”

Victor Tiribás earned his PhD in history at Scuola Normale Superiore. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Università degli Studi Roma Tre and a Harry Starr Fellowship at Harvard University and is currently a fellow at the Center for Netherlandish Art in the Museum of Fine Arts.