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David William Voorhees, Director of the Papers of Jacob Leisler Project, is also Managing Editor of de Halve Maen, a quarterly scholarly journal devoted to New Netherland studies published by The Holland Society of New York. Formerly the Managing Reference History Editor at Charles Scribner's Sons and a Co-Editor of The Papers of William Livingston, he received a Ph.D. in history from New York University in 1988. His published works include The Concise Dictionary of American History (1983), The Holland Society: A Centennial History 1885-1985 (1985), and Records of the Reformed Protestant Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Volume 1, 1677-1720 (1999). He was a New York State Council of the Humanities Speaker in 1996-1998.

Firth Haring Fabend, member of the Advisory Board of the Papers of Jacob Leisler, received a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. She is the author of A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800, and Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, both published by Rutgers University Press, and numerous essays on the Dutch in America. An independent historian, Dr. Fabend is a Fellow of both The Holland Society of New York and the New Netherland Institute.

Jaap Jacobs, member of the Advisory Board of the Papers of Jacob Leisler, specializes in the colonial history of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in particular the Dutch in the Atlantic World. He obtained his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 1999 and in 2005 published New Netherland. A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America. He has published various articles on New Netherland and is currently working on a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant.

Wim Klooster, is an Associate Professor of History at Clark University. His publications include The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800 (1997), Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (1998), The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination(2005, coedited with Alfred Padula), and Power and the City in the Netherland World, coedited with Wayne te Brake (2006).

Antonia Kolb, D.I.A., member of the Advisory Board of the Papers of Jacob Leisler, is a direct descendant of Jacob Leisler's brother, Johann Adam. She studied Architecture at the Technische Universität München, and is a self-employed engineer for projects in Germany and other European countries. She is an active member of several history societies and currently working on different private history projects.

Karen O. Kuppeman, member of the Advisory Board of the Papers of Jacob Leisler, is Silver Family Professor of History at New York University. Her most recent book, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (Ithaca, 2000), won the American Historical Association's Prize in Atlantic History. Her book The Jamestown Project will be published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Among her current projects is a critical edition of Richard Ligon's A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657, 1673) and a new edition of her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony.