Claire Dwyer is a second-year PhD student at the Department of History at Columbia University. Her research centers on twelfth-century medieval Iberian law, primarily the fueros and charters issued by powerful women such as queens, countesses, and abbesses.

Alina Shubina is a second-year PhD student at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research centers on questions of embodiment, memory, and translation in the Middle Ages and across time.