Rieke Marie Kaiser 

DiViAS - Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Rieke Marie Kaiser is a historian and research associate at the project DiViAS. Her research focuses on maritime history of the 17^th and 18^th century as well as Digital Humanities. She is currently working on her PhD thesis titled “The Road full of Ships” – Spatial, Temporal and Social Dimensions of Early Modern Movement, where she’s working with logbooks and journals from the Prize Papers collection to track the movement of ships, people and objects and analyse what influenced it.  

Quentin Daste

Université Paris-8 Vincennes - St-Denis & Sorbonne-Université

Graduate in literature and history, and now PhD student in Hispanic studies, Quentin Daste works on the encounters brought about by travels in Catalan-language literature of the 15th century, but also on the reception of medieval Catalan literature in France.

Annabelle Lafuente

University of Pau et Pays de l'Adour

Annabelle Lafuente is a PhD student in History at the University of Pau et Pays de l'Adour, member of the ITEM EA 3002 laboratory and the CORBAN project.

Andrew Little

Records Specialist Consultant: Dutch & 17th century

Marilia Moreira

School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Marília Arantes Moreira researches global maritime history (PhD) of the long 18th century at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), the University of London, being affiliated to the History Department of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She is fluent in English, French and, at the Prize Papers, is a specialist for Spanish and Portuguese.

Dr. Annika Raapke

Uppsala University, Sweden. 

Dr. Annika Raapke is a historian of the early modern Caribbean, specialising in the histories of women, relationships, work, the body and food!

Visit also her institute page

Alejandro Salamanca

University Institute of Florence

Alejandro Salamanca is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute of Florence.

Dr. Sona Tajiryan

Gemological Institute of America, PhD (UCLA)
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Gemological Institute of America

Sona Tajiryan is an expert on New Julfan mercantile dialect and is working on the Armenian portion of the letters found on the ship ‚Santa Catharina’.