Hans Broedel
Dr. Hans Peter Broedel is a visiting assistant professor at the University of North Dakota in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation History. He was the recipient of the Arthur Denny Prize (1990) and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington (1998). He is also the author of the book The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft: Theology and popular belief (2003).

Johannes Dillinger
Dr. Johannes Dillinger studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of East Anglia and later joined the doctoral research seminar, Western Europe in Comparative Perspective, at the University of Trier (1995). He finished his Ph.D. thesis, which was a comparative study of 1300 witch trials in two German principalities (1998); the book later won the Friedrich Spee Award. In 2000 and 2001, he worked as a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute Washington and Georgetown University, and received the Emmy Noether Grant of the German Research Association. Most recently Dillinger worked with doctoral students on a major comparative study of the political representation of the peasantry in colonial New England and early modern Europe

Richard Kieckhefer
Richard Kieckhefer is a professor on the history of Christianity such as an introductory class on the New Testament and advanced classes such as Foundations of Christian Thought and Christian Mystical Theology. His work generally focuses on the late Middle Ages (14th-15th centuries) but also extends beyond this period. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy. He has published six single-authored books in addition to three major books in the history of witchcraft and magic: European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 (1976), Magic in the Middle Ages (1989), and Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1997).

Christopher S. Mackay
Dr. Christopher S. Mackay is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Mackay received his Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University (1994). He is the author of, among many books and articles, Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History (2005) as well as The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum (2006, 2009).