Stefano Fogelberg Rota, Ph.D. (2008), Stockholm University, is a researcher at the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. He has published widely on Queen Christina and her cultural patronage. His research interests include also travel literature from Italy in the 18th century.

Andreas Hellerstedt, Ph.D. (2009), Stockholm University, is an historian of ideas and coordinator of the multidisciplinary research project "Teaching Virtue", Department of History, Stockholm University. His main research interest is in political ideas in Sweden and Northern Europe ca 1650-1750.

Erik Eliasson, Ph.D. (2005), Uppsala University, is a Fellow at HCAS, Helsinki. His research covers Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Aristotelian tradition, including The Notion of that Which Depends on Us in Plotinus and its Background. Philosophia Antiqua, Vol. 113, Brill 2008.

Nils Holger Petersen, Ph.D. (1994), University of Copenhagen, is Associate Professor of Church History, having published widely on music and drama within the history of Christianity. He is editor for music for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.

Biörn Tjällén, Ph.D. (2007), Stockholm University, is a researcher at the Stockholm University Department of History and has published on topics of medieval historiography and political thought.

Kristine Kolrud, Ph.D. (2006), University of Oslo, is Research Fellow in the History of Art at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and she has published on questions of art, power, religion and gender.

Tania Preste, Ph.D. (2007), Università degli Studi di Trento, is a scholar at the Department of History at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the educational politics of the elites in early modern Europe and on the building of collective identities.

Jennie Nell, Ph.D. (2012), Stockholm University, is senior lecturer in Comparative Literature. She specializes in Swedish, British, American and French literature of the 18th century, and Greco-Roman rhetoric. Her current research includes the reception of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Sweden c. 1760-1830.