Sandra Ataíde Lobo is a researcher of Centro de Humanidades, Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa with a PhD in the history and theory of ideas. She co-promoted the birth of International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire. Among other interests, she works on press and intellectual histories with particular focus on Goa and Portugal, colonialism and anti-colonialism, literature and politics, internationalism and cosmopolitan historiography.

Jessica Falconi is a researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies, University of Lisbon. She has a PhD in Iberian studies (2007) from the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. She was a postdoctoral fellow in 2010-2017, funded by the FCT (Portugal). She was also a visiting lecturer at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and head of the Portuguese Language Centre/Instituto Camoes (2018/2019).

Remy Dias is a professor of history, Govt. College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Quepem - Goa, India, has done extensive research on the history of the Goan institution i.e., the Comunidades (Village Community System) and has contributed to research on the economic history of Portuguese Goa.

Dave A. Smith is a translator and writer based in Houston, Texas. His most recent work, with Daniel Michon, is To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731-1734 (Routledge, 2021).