Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.
Gianluca Miniaci is Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL – London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt) and principal investigator for four large national projects. His main research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age, and the global and comparative history and archaeology.
Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).