Marcia Kupfer contributes to the study of medieval art as an independent scholar. Her many publications reflect wide-ranging interests in pictorial narrative, maps, and visual expressions of Christian Jewish polemic. Her 2016 book, Art and Optics in the Hereford Map : An English Mappa Mundi c.1300 (Yale University Press), was awarded a prize from the Historians of British Art. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto.
His publications include The Uta Codex : Art, Philosophy and Reform in Eleventh- Century Germany (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) and Signs and Wonders : 100 Haggada Masterpieces (The Toby Press, 2018). With Linda Safran and Jill Caskey, he is the author of Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages : Exploring a Connected World (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). J. H. (Yossi) Chajes is Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa and the director of its Center for the Study of Jewish Cultures.
His pioneering work on the "Ilanot Project" has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and a Volkswagen Foundation grant for the digital humanities project "Maps of God — Building a Portal to Visual Kabbalah."