Carrie Beneš, Co-Project Director for Spatial Analysis, is a cultural historian with extensive experience in spatial history whose research focuses on landscape and urban identity in late medieval Italy. She is Professor of Medieval & Renaissance History at New College of Florida.

Laura Ingallinella, Co-Project Director for Editorial Practice, is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto. She is a scholar of late medieval and Renaissance Italian literature who specializes in the transregional and cross-linguistic exchanges characteristic of merchant culture. 

Amanda Madden, Co-Project Director for Visualization, is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Geospatial History in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. She has led or co-led several digital spatial history projects and her current research focuses on violence and space in early modern Italy. As Co-Project Director for Visualization (.05FTE both years), she will oversee web development, design, and hosting for our digital edition.

Laura Morreale, Co-Project Director for Project Management, is an independent scholar based in Washington, D.C. whose research explores questions of medieval Italian history and historiography using digital methods. She has served as project director or Co-PI on over a dozen digital medieval studies projects and directs a series on Digital Medieval Studies for ARC Humanities Press.

Winston Black, a historian of medicine in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, is Gatto Chair of Christian Studies at St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia).

Stephanie Lahey is a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies and Old Books New Sciences lab. Her research focuses on medieval codicology and palaeography, with an emphasis on quantitative and scientifically informed approaches to the materiality of books before print.

Michael Ryan, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, studies the intersection of magic, science, and religion in the premodern world, especially in Spain and Italy. 

Matthew Westerby, an art historian of medieval and Renaissance Europe with special expertise in manuscripts and the digital humanities, is Digital Research Officer at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Ciara McIlvenny is an undergraduate student concentrating in History at New College of Florida, who first encountered La sfera in Professor Beneš's class Early Modern Europe: The World in Maps. She serves as the Sfera Project's social media manager.