Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of the Journal of World History. He wrote extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history, including Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983), and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (1987), and in later years, concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction, resulting in Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) and Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996). He passed away in 2012.

David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
Thomas T. Allsen, College of New Jersey
Thomas J. Barfield, at Boston University
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai`i
Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews
Rainer F. Buschmann, Purdue University
Luigi Cajani, University of Roma 'La Sapienza'
David Christian, Macquarie University
Paul d'Arcy, Australian National University
Edward J. Davies, II, University of Utah
Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore
Christopher Ehret, University of California - Los Angeles
Daniel R. Headrick, Roosevelt University
Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Monash University
Alan L. Karras, University of California - Berkeley
Donald R. Kelley, Rutgers University
Matthew Lauzon, University of Hawai`i
Martin W. Lewis, Stanford University
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University
John A. Mears, Southern Methodist University
Patrick Karl O'Brien, London School of Economics
Jürgen Osterhammel, University of Konstanz
Peter C. Perdue, Yale University
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California - Irvine
Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
Charles Tilly †, formerly Columbia University
James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota
John Obert Voll, Georgetown University
André Wink, University of Wisconsin - Madison