Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute and a lecturer in Art History at Williams College. Her current book Dutch Art and the Invention of Slavery: Black Life, Hidden Finance, and the Bourgeoisie (Duke University Press, 2025), examines the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on the Dutch art market, arguing that the impossibility of figuring the transubstantiation of life into a commodity structured the rise of certain genres, such as maritime painting and monuments. Her other books include The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas (Yale University Press, 2020), and Drawing and the Senses: An Early Modern History (Brepols, 2018). She is also co-editor of the series Art/Work with Princeton University Press, which presents thought-provoking essays on intersections between the practice of conservation and art history. She also occasionally hosts the podcast In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing.

Peter M. Lukehart is Associate Dean at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2001-present). He received an M.A. in art history from Temple University, and a Ph.D. in art history from Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at George Mason University and Dickinson College where he was director of the college’s museum, associate professor of art history. He has a longstanding interest in the education and incorporation of artists in the early modern period, and his publications on this subject include contributions to the exhibition  catalogue Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (J. Paul Getty Musuem, 2007) and to The Artist’s Workshop, published under his editorship in the Studies in the History of Art series at the National Gallery of Art (1993). He also served as editor of the Accademia Seminars (2009), for which he wrote the introduction and an essay “Visions and Divisions in the Early History of the Accademia di San Luca.”  He is project director for an online research database entitled “The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma.”

Rafico Ruiz is a scholar, educator, curator who joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2019 as Associate Director of Research. Ruiz’s work explores settler colonialism and infrastructure in the circumpolar world, as well as contemporary environmental issues related to the phase states of ice. He studied architecture and communication studies at Columbia University and McGill University, and has held a number of postdoctoral and visiting scholar appointments at UC Santa Barbara, Microsoft Research, Dartmouth College, and Trent University, amongst others. Ruiz has designed and led a number of research fellowship programs at the CCA, including the Mellon-funded The Digital Now: Architecture and Intersectionality (2020-2022), the three-year In the Postcolony series that was part of the CCA’s Master’s students program (2020-2022), as well as creating the Indigenous-led Design Fellowship Program (2022-2024) and the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program (2022-2024), focusing on the theme of Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet. He also co-curated ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home (2022), the CCA’s first Indigenous-led exhibition and publication project that sought to centre a land-based architecture by and for Inuit and Sámi communities. Ruiz is also the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (Duke University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke University Press, 2021).

Catharine Dann Roeber, PhD is a scholar of American material and visual culture in a global context with interests in mapping, architecture, interiors, the history of collecting and global circulation of goods, and historical and contemporary craft/making. In addition to teaching and leading the Academic Affairs Division at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Catharine Dann Roeber is executive editor of Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture and Director of Winterthur’s Research Fellowship Program.  Catharine also teaches graduate courses for the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture through University of Delaware. She recently co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture (2022). She has curated and co-curated over a dozen exhibits and is a consultant for global cultural heritage projects in the U.S. and East Asia.