Elisheva Baumgarten is the Yitzhak Becker Professor and teaches medieval history in the Departments of History and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently the academic head of the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in Humanities at HUJI.

Jodi Eichler-Levine is the Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and director of the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University, with expertise in the fields of Jewish American studies, North American religions, and popular culture.

Alexandria (Xandy) Frisch is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at George Mason University and is currently a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Phil Lieberman* is Professor of Jewish Studies and Law, Professor of Islamic Studies and History, Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair and Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, at Vanderbilt University. He is currently on military leave in the Department of History at the United States Naval Academy.

Bryan K. Roby is an Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He currently heads the AJS Scholars of Color Fellowship Program.

Adam Shear is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. He has served AJS as co-editor of AJS Review, as a division chair, and on the nominating and the dissertation fellowship committees.

Alan Verskin is the Samuel J. Zacks Chair of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. He researches the history of the Jews of the Islamic world.