Ian Tonat earned his PhD from The College of William & Mary in 2022 with a dissertation titled “The
People of the Bay: Native Society and Alliance in the Green Bay Region, 1650–1750.” He is an
Assistant Editor at the John Dickinson Writings Project.
Francesca Langer is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Atlantic World History at the University of
Central Missouri. Her research focuses on the relationship between mass media, popular culture, political
aesthetics, and ideology in the early national U.S. and Latin America.
E.M. Rose is a Visiting Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University. A historian of medieval
and early modern Britain, she is the author of The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of
the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), which received the Phi
Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, as well as articles in Parliamentary History, the
Huntington Library Quarterly, and the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography.