Dr. Emanuel Buttigieg, University of Malta

Emanuel Buttigieg obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History in the department of History at the University of Malta. His first book was Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 (London and New York: Continuum, 2011). Together with Dr Simon Phillips of the University of Cyprus he has also co-edited Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). He is also the author of several papers in journals and edited books. At present he is Vice-President ex-officio of the Malta University Historical Society (MUHS) and he was a Committee member of the Malta Historical Society (MHS) between 2011 and 2015.

Dr. Ioanna Christoforaki, Academy of Athens

Ioanna Christoforaki gained her PhD from the University of Oxford and is Research Fellow in Archaeology at the Research Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art at the Academy of Athens. Although her many publications cover a variety of themes, including medieval Rhodes, her specialism is in art-history with a particular emphasis on Cyprus.

Dr. Simon Phillips, University of Malta

Simon Phillips is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Malta. He holds doctorates in medieval History from the University of Athens and the University of Winchester. His specialism is on the Knights Hospitaller, both in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. His publications include The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England (2009), Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 ( 2013, with Emanuel Buttigieg), and The 1522 Siege of Rhodes: Causes, Course and Consequences (2022). He is currently researching on Rhodes in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century using the Hospitaller archival material from Malta. He has lectured both at the University of Cyprus and University of Malta and has been an external examiner for the University of Malta (MA, PhD) and University of New Mexico (PhD). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).