Who are we?

Yavuz Selim Ağaoğlu majored in engineering, business administration and philosophy. He is the worshipful master of Izmir Valley Research Lodge. His research on the history of Freemasonry in Turkey along with his studies on archive texts in Ottoman language have been published as conferences, articles and books. His research was rewarded three times by the Grand Lodge of Turkey in 2005, 2012 and 2017. He is also the 2011 laureate of the Outstanding Service Award of the Supreme Council for Turkey.

An established Masonic researcher from The Grand Lodge of Ireland who has researched extensively into the history, symbolism and traditions of the Irish Craft and Royal Arch. Has been published by Quatuor Coronati, in 2017 and extensively in the Transactions of both The Irish Lodge of Research No 200 I.C. and the Irish Chapter of Research No 222 I.C. He was the first Irish intender on the 2011 Video Presentations produced by Albert McClelland for The Grand lodge of Indiana. Currently serving as Secretary of The Irish Lodge of Masonic Research No 200 I.C. .

John Belton is a member of Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge in London, He is the author of the books The English Masonic Union of 1813: A Tale Antient and Modern, Dudley Wright: Writer, Truthseeker & Freemason, and the anthology A Questioning Eye on Freemasonry. His main interests are for exploring those less travelled angles to (masonic) history that often prove the most fascinating. Professionally John started work as a microbiologist, then changed to marketing and worked for the pharmaceutical company Astra-Zeneca.

Allan Casalou is the grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of California. He's been the editor of the California Freemason magazine since 2002.

John Cooper pursued a career in public education as a high school teacher and administrator. He is a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of California and an internationally recognized researcher into Freemasonry. 

Jacques Huyghebaert is an intercultural freemason who is a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic and grand orator of the District Grand Lodge of Sri Lanka, under the United Grand Lodge of England, and holding several past and honorary titles as well. He has been an active follower of Freemasonry on Internet as a concept since late 90s by taking part in several initiatives such as Masonic Bulletin Board Systems (early 90's), Compuserve Masonic Forum (1993), Internet Lodge No. 9659 E.C. (2003) 

Aleksandar Jovanovic is professor of applied linguistics at Universidade de São Paulo and Master of the Quatuor Coronati São Paulo Lodge # 333, as well as the Grand Secretary on Foreign Affairs of the Grand Lodge of São Paulo. 

W.Bro Dr Mike Kearsley was the Provincial Grand Orator for Middlesex. He was initiated into freemasonry in the Hawera Lodge № 34 in Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand and was passed and raised in Mairehau Lodge № 391 in Christchurch , New Zealand.  Later he joined the David Bonner Lodge № 9678, the Musicians Lodge of the province of Middlesex, under the English constitution becoming its Master in 2010 and Secretary. He is a member of the Temple of Athene Research Lodge № 9541, becoming Master in 2013, the Feltham Lodge № 7307, becoming Master in 2012, Quatuor Coronati Lodge № 2076 and London Stone RA Chapter № 2541, becoming MEZ in 2012. 

Adam Kendall, MA, is a California-based historian and member of Quatuor Coronati Research Lodge in London. His research focuses on the role of fraternalism in a variety of topics, such as the reception of ancient religions and mythology, nativism, art, and local histories. He is currently involved with the leadership and editorial committees of several international Masonic research societies.

Brendan Kyne is the Secretary of the Victorian Lodge of Research, the Secretary of the Australian & New Zealand Masonic Research Council (ANZMRC) and the Deputy Grand Superintendent of Education for the United Grand Lodge of Victoria.   He has published numerous articles and papers on Freemasonry with many of them focusing on some of the overlooked Masonic history in his home State of Victoria, and he is a regular speaker to both public and Masonic audiences.

Dimitrios Kontesis studied economics and is working in Media on HR and Administration. Past Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of Greece, Secretary of the Lodge of Research Isis No 9. He has attended many masonic conferences and has delivered papers on different topics, some published as well.

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Mag. Marcus G. Patka, born 1966 in Vienna, studies in contemporary history, literature, music., etc., curator at the Jewish Museum Vienna since 1998, lectures at Portland State University 2004 & 2006, WM of lodge Quatuor Coronati Vienna since 2015, editor of its yearbook, publications: Österreichische Freimaurer im Nationalsozialismus (Vienna 2010); Freimaurerei und Sozialreform (Vienna 2011).

Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. From 2012–2019, he was theme leader fellow for the Digital Transformations strategic theme of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Aubrey Newman served as Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076 in 1999. He was educated in London, Glasgow and Oxford, with an MA from Glasgow, a BA, MA and PhD from Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Past President of the Jewish Historical Society of England 

Cécile Révauger is Professor Emerita of English Studies at Bordeaux University. 

She defended a doctoral thesis on the history of freemasonry in the 18th centrury, in Britain and the United States. She has published several articles on British and American Freemasonry in academic journals and written several books on the history of freemasonry as well as The Abolition of Slavery: The British Debate, 1787-1833 (2008). She has co-edited two volumes at La Pensee et les Hommes devoted to women and Freemasonry in the 18 th , 19th and 20th centuries, following the international conference she organized in Bordeaux in June 2010. She edited  a biographical dictionary of 18 th -century Freemasons, in collaboration with Charles Porset: Le Monde Maçonnique des Lumieres, published at Champion Editions, Paris, 3 vol (June 2013). In 2015, she coedited Les Ordres de Sagesse du Rite Français, a book on the history of the higher degrees of the French Rite . She edited the first volume of English primary sources compiled by Robert Peter, Jan Snoek and herself : British Freemasonry, 1717-1813, general editor Robert Peter, London and NY, Routledge, 2016, 5 vol. She wrote Black Freemasonry. From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz, Inner Traditions 2016. She has just published La Longue Marche des Franc-Maçonnes (2018), a book devoted to women and freemasonry in France, Britain and the USA since the Enlightenment. She supervised five doctoral students who defended their PHDs on the history of freemasonry. Her forthcoming book to be published by the Dervy editions is  « Que faire ?... en loge », a comparative study of lodge practices in France, Britain and the States since the 18th century.

M. Remzi Sanver (https://sanver.bilgi.edu.tr) is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research on mathematical social sciences has lead to 70 scientific papers cited more than 1000 times. Sanver is a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Turkey and has published 7 monographs on Freemasonry, on topics ranging from history of Freemasonry in Turkey to spiritual aspects of the order.  

Susan Mitchell Sommers PhD is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and Professor of History at Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania.  She has been active in British political and Masonic research since 2004, and has served on the scientific committee for ICHF, the UCLA International conferences, and is a past editor of the Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism.  She was an active contributor to Le Monde Maçonnique au XVIIIe siècle, edited by Cecile Révauger and Charles Porset.  Recent books include The Siblys of London: A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, April 2018) and Thomas Dunckerley and English Freemasonry, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012). 

Thierry Zarcone is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, based at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and gives courses currently at the Institute of Political Sciences in Aix-en-Provence. His field of expertise is the history and anthropology of Islam in the Turko-Persian region (Turkey, Central Asia and Xinjiang). His most recent books are Sufi Pilgrims from Central Asia and India in Jerusalem (Kyoto University, 2009), Le Soufisme, voie mystique de l’islam (Gallimard, 2009); Secret et sociétés secrètes en islam (Archè, 2004); Le Croissant et le Compas. La Franc-maçonnerie dans le monde musulman entre fascination et détestation (Dervy, 2015); Le Mystère Abd el-Kader. La Franc-Maçonnerie, la France et l’Islam (Cerf, 2019). He has also edited several books, for ex. La Fabrique de la Franc-Maçonnerie française. Histoire, Sociabilités et Rituels, 1725-1750 (Dervy, 2017). He is currently the Worshipful Master of the lodge Villard de Honnecourt (National Research Lodge of the Grande Loge Nationale Française) and the director of the Advisory Board of the Cahiers Villard de Honnecourt.