Dr. Mukesh Kumar is an SNSF Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Indian Studies, University of Zurich. He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney and has previously been recipients of prestigious fellowships at ETH Zurich and Heidelberg University. His recent book, Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint (Cambridge University Press, 2024), examines shared religious cultures in North India.

Amal Shahid is a Swiss National Science Foundation Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne. She completed a PhD in International History from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, which won the Pierre du Bois Prize 2023. Her research interests are history of imperialism and colonialism, global history, labour, and political economy.

Ella Daisy Müller is a doctoral student and research assistant at ETH Zurich, working on the Basel Mission's engagement with natural history and sciences in South India and West Africa. She studied History, Sociology and Digital Humanities at the Universities of Constance, Bologna, Zurich and Basel and holds a teaching diploma for upper secondary teaching. Her research interests lie in the histories of mission, science and labour as well as transimperial histories.