Maciej Mikuła, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Church Law and the Law of Religious Denominations. He graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in 2007 and in history from the university's Faculty of History in 2008. In 2012 he defended his doctoral thesis, an abridged version of which was published under the title "Royal and Parliamentary Legislation for the Royal Cities in Małopolska (1386-1572): A Study in the Rule of Law in Poland". He habilitated in 2018 [monograph: "Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Poland 14th-early 16th century: A Study on the Evolution and Adaptation of Law"]. His research interests include the history of German law (especially Magdeburg law) in Central and Eastern Europe, sources of medieval law, editing of historical legal texts, Polish criminal law of the interwar period, and guarantees of religious freedom in Poland, the European Union, and the United States.

Magdalena Banaszkiewicz is a cultural anthropologist, and an Associate Professor in the Institute of Intercultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Her fields of research include heritage and tourism studies, with a special interest in citizen-based and participatory approach. Her interests focus in particular on interpretation of dissonant heritage as well as tourism development in the Central and Eastern Europe region. She has published three monographs (among them: “Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone” Routledge 2022), and dozens of articles for scholarly journals such as "Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change", "Narrative Culture", "Polish Sociological Review", "Turystyka kulturowa", and "Turyzm". She has also co-edited a number of volumes (i.a. "Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe". Bridging Worlds, Lexington Books, 2018). She is the chair of the MA specialization program in Heritage Tourism, funded by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development. Recently she has been actively engaged in various international projects as a member of a self-steering committee on Cultural Heritage of the Una Europa alliance of European universities.

Kamil Ruszała, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern History at the Jagiellonian University. He studied in Kraków, Prague, and Vienna, and defended his PhD at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of History in 2018. His research interests focus on the social, economic, and political history of Austria-Hungary, with particular focus on Galicia, World War I, the fall of the Habsburg Empire (including post-imperial transformation), war refugees in modern history, and WWI monuments and cemeteries. Based on his research in the above-mentioned thematic areas, he has produced numerous books, edited works, and articles, as well as chapters in collective monographs. He cooperates with foreign academic institutions, and, as a visiting lecturer and researcher, has visited universities and academic institutions in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Slovenia, Ukraine, the USA, and Italy. He leads several research projects as PI, e.g. the research groups "Refugees in Europe 1914-1923"; and "Forgotten refugee camps in Austria-Hungary 1914-1918".

Dr hab. Katarzyna Kuras works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Early Modern History of the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University. She deals with the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times, with particular emphasis on client relations, patronage and the importance of magnate courts in the political and cultural reality of these times. She is the author of the book “Collaborators and clients of August A. Czartoryski in the "Saxon era" in Poland” (Historia Iagellonica, Kraków 2010). The second area of her interest is court culture in the modern era. She is the author of the work “The court of Queen Marie Leszczyńska: its people, money and influence” (Historia Iagellonica, Kraków 2018). Right now, she deals with a project concerning cultural exchange between European courts of the 18th century, with particular emphasis on the relations between Paris, Dresden, and Naples in the times of Maria Josepha of Saxony – daughter of August III Wettin – and their influence on the situation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Bohdan Widła, PhD, is an assistant at the Department of Intellectual Property Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. He was awarded the degree of doctor of law in 2019 on the basis of the dissertation "Scientific and critical editions of texts as the subject of copyright and related rights", published in 2020 by Wolters Kluwer Polska. His research interests concern the impact of intellectual property law on access to cultural goods, as well as copyright protection of computer programs.

Anna Ceglarska, PhD, is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, and currently an assistant at the Department of History of Political and Legal Doctrines. In 2017, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, specializing in the history of political and legal doctrines, after defending her dissertation, entitled “Pre-Socratic Greece from Homer to Herodotus. Towards social pluralism and the idea of a mixed state”. Her research interests include ancient political thought and matters related to the influence of broadly understood myth and fiction in shaping political consciousness and law, as well as their role in legal education. She is the author of the monograph "Politics and Justice in pre-Socratic Greece" (Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2019).

Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw; and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Her current scholarly research focuses on migration studies (Central and Western Europe, and Turkey), visual and sensory sociology, and heritage studies. Nikielska-Sekuła received her MA degree in Sociology from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, and her PhD in interdisciplinary Culture Studies from the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her previous positions include Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and Marie Curie ESR at the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) in Istanbul, and the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto. Karolina is a member of the INTEGRIM Lab, the International Sociological Association, the International Visual Sociology Association, the IMISCOE-DIVCULT standing committee, and the Nordic Migration Research Network.

Ewa Wszendybył-Skulska, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management in Tourism and Sport of the Institute of Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication. Her main areas of research interest focus on human resource management, quality management, innovation and modern management of tourist entities. She is the author of one independent and three multi-author scientific monographs, several articles in scientific journals such as: "Information Technology&Tourism", "Turyzm", "Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism", and co-editor of several scientific monographs. Visiting professor at the University of Latvia in Riga, Kazakh National University Al-Farabi in Almaty and Samarkand State University in Samarkand. He completed scientific internships at the Forschungsstelle DDR-Recht at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. Scientific interests: history of the judiciary, in particular, the participation of the social factor in the judiciary and the disciplinary responsibility of judges; constitutional law of authoritarian states; archival law; the importance of the history of law for contemporary legal practice; editing legal sources.

Anna Pluszyńska is an assistant professor at the Institute of Culture of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University. In 2011, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled "Managing Copyright in the Era of the Knowledge Society" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J. Barta and Prof. Dr. B. Nierenberg. She is also an animator, cultural manager, and coordinator for accessibility and openness. She is a member of the Research Institute of Cultural Organisations - IBOK and the Humanistic Management Network. Additionally, she serves as the secretary of the Commission for Culture and Media Management of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications and research projects on the management of intellectual property and the accessibility of cultural institutions.

Wiktor Dziemski, who is employed by the Department of Source Publications, is currently completing his PhD in literature at Jagiellonian University, with a focus on medieval hagiographical literature. From 2017 to 2022, he obtained a Master's degree in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. Between 2013 and 2016, he obtained his Master's degree at the Jagiellonian University, specialising in classical philology. Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor's degree in Classical Philology at the University of Warsaw from 2009 to 2012 and a Master's degree in Political Science at the same university from 2006 to 2011.

Graduate in comparative literature and religious studies (MA and BA in both disciplines), she received a doctoral degree in literary studies with a specialization in comparative literature in 2021 based on her dissertation "The Presence of the Flying Africans Myth in 20 and 21st-century Postcolonial Novel." Member of the African Literature Association, Comparative Literature Association and the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora, she is part of the Jagiellonian Research Center for African Studies team. She specializes in myth studies, postcolonial comparative literature studies, and "black studies". In 2022, together with Dr Natalia Zawiejska, she received funding for an international research group as part of the grant “Mapping the Public Space of Gender and LGBTQ+ Mobilizations in Angola. A Research Agenda”. Her current research focuses on Polish heritage in Haiti, Afrofuturism and queer West African literature. She works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies.

Anna Niedźwiedź is a cultural anthropologist and is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She also worked in the USA as a Visiting Professor at SUNY Buffalo between 2006 and 2007, and at the University of Rochester in 2011. Her main research interests are situated within the anthropology of religion and have focused on the concept of “lived religion”. Her publications include "The Image and the Figure: Our Lady of Częstochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion" (2010) and "Religia przeżywana. Katolicyzm i jego konteksty we współczesnej Ghanie" ["Lived Religion: Catholicism and Its Contexts in Contemporary Ghana"; 2010 Polish edition, an English edition is in preparation]. Currently, she is a PI on the project entitled: "Between Marginalization and Empowerment: Women in African Catholicism (the case of Ghana)" [WOMAC], funded by the Polish National Science Centre. Her other interests are connected with anthropology of space and city, especially in the context of urban spaces and their relations with "religious heritage". She curated the exhibition "Maps of the City: Heritages and the Sacred within Kraków’s Cityscape" at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, 2017-8, and co-authored a book under the same title (2020). These outputs were completed as a result of the international research project, "HERILIGION: The Heritagization of Religion and the Sacralization of Heritage in Contemporary Europe", funded by HERA and EU Horizon 2020, where she was a PI and leader of the Polish team. She is a member of various academic associations and boards in Poland and abroad and from 2021 she has been involved in developing the "cultural heritage" theme within the international university network, UNA EUROPA.

Łukasz Gaweł, Ph.D. is a professor at Jagiellonian University. He graduated in theatre studies from the same university in 1994. In 2001, he defended his doctoral thesis titled "Działalność artystyczna Starego Teatru w latach 1954–63. Narodziny legendy" ("Artistic Activity of the Old Theater in the Years 1954-1963: The Birth of a Legend"), under the supervision of Professor Emil Orzechowski. He later joined the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University and became a member of the Department of Cultural Management. In 2012, he obtained a post-doctoral degree in management within the humanities field (habilitation thesis: "Szlaki dziedzictwa kulturowego. Teoria i praktyka" [Cultural heritage routes. Theory and practice]). The author's primary area of interest is cultural heritage management, particularly in relation to thematic routes. Additionally, the author is interested in the role of heritage as a driver of social change. A second area of research interest is the management of the public cultural sector, with a focus on museums.

Jan Halberda, Ph.D., works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of General History of State and Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. His areas of expertise include Anglo-American private law, comparative law, and general legal history. For several years, he has has been researching the functioning of "safety valves" in Anglo-American legal systems: his doctoral thesis focused on unjust enrichment, the habilitation thesis on the institution of estoppel, and his current research, conducted as a visiting researcher at Yale Law School, concerns the functioning of the principle of good faith in contract law. He is also the coordinator of the interdisciplinary research platform 'Hector. Heritage, Culture, Norms', as well as a board member-treasurer of the Polish Society for the History of Law and a member of the scientific council of the Center for Anglo-American Legal Tradition at the University of Łódź. He is also a legal advisor (OIRP in Krakow) and an expert witness (in the field of foreign law - private law of common law countries) registered in the lists of expert witnesses kept by the Presidents of the Regional Courts in Krakow, Katowice, Warsaw and Warsaw-Praga in Warsaw.

Dr. Paulina Kamińska is an assistant at the Department of Source Publishing, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University. She is graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź (2014). She continued her research as PhD student in the field of Polish legal history (2014-2019). In June 2019 she defended her PhD thesis entitled “Non–enforcement administrative auctions in the Kingdom of Poland (1842-1866). Practice in Piotrków County against the backdrop of legislation”. Her research interests focus on the historical and legal issues of the first half of the 19th century in the Kingdom of Poland, in particular the history of administrative law, criminal law, enforcement proceedings (court and administrative) and the editing of historic legal texts. In the years 2017-2021 she was a scholarship holder and substantive contractor in a research project on the codification of judicial law in the 19th century on Polish lands, financed by the National Science Centre (project implemented on Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk). Currently, she is a substantive contractor in the project “FONTES. FOstering iNnovative Training in the use of European legal Sources” (Università degli Studi di Palermo – Leader of the Project, University of Geneva, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Jagiellonian University) and participates in the project “IURA. Sources of Laws from the Past”.

Izabela Wasik is a law graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where she obtained her Master's degree with distinction in 2022. She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University. Under the supervision of Prof. Marian Małecki, PhD, she is working on a dissertation on the functioning of summary courts in Galicia between 1772 and 1918. As part of the Critical Heritage Studies Hub, she is involved in the Hector project, which aims to create an international research platform bringing together scholars from different prestigious academic centres. Her research interests include the history of law, with a particular focus on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Galicia, and the analysis of the works of eminent jurists of the First Republic, focusing on systemic and administrative regulations, such as the functioning of Galician autonomy and various aspects of health, culture and education.

Graduated in ethnology from the Jagiellonian University (1993), received a doctorate from the Faculty of History (UJ, 2000) and a habilitation degree awarded by the Discipline Council for the Science on Culture and Religion (UJ, 2020). He is also a graduate of the Master of Public Administration programme run jointly by the Malopolska School of Public Administration (Cracow University of Economics) and Copenhagen Business School (2004). A visiting professor (Lyon and Strasbourg, multiple times) and a scholarship holder from the governments of Switzerland (1995) and France (2017). Thanks to a scholarship from the Swedish Institute, he completed a postdoctoral stay at the Centre for European Studies at Lund University (2014). He is the coordinator of the double degree MA programme taught by the Institute of European Studies UJ and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de l’Université de Strasbourg (since 2010). Currently the head of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme at the Doctoral School in the Humanities UJ. Last but not least, he represents the Jagiellonian University in the Self-Steering Committee in Cultural Heritage of the “Una Europa” alliance (since 2020) and since October 2023 is co-chair of this international team. He is also a member of the Una Europa Joint Doctoral Committee, which is responsible for the Una-Her-Doc doctoral programme offered by this European University in Heritage Studies. At the UJ, the Una-Her-Doc programme is embedded in the Doctoral Schools of Humanities and of Social Sciences.

Jakob Maziarz, PhD. - research and teaching employee at the Department of the History of Polish Law. He graduated with honours from law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University (2012) and obtained a doctorate with honours (2016) based on the thesis "Jury Courts in the Second Republic of Poland based on the practice of the District Court in Krakow". Deputy manager of the "IURA. Sources of Law from the Past" project. Visiting professor at the University of Latvia in Riga, Kazakhstan's Al-Farabi National University in Almaty and Samarkand State University in Samarkand. He has held research internships at the Forschungsstelle DDR-Recht at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. Research interests: history of the judiciary, in particular the participation of the social factor in the judiciary and the disciplinary responsibility of judges; constitutional law of authoritarian states; archival law; relevance of legal history for contemporary legal practice; source editing.