Prof. Patrick Bergemann Assistant Professor of Organization and Management at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. (At the time of the interview, Prof. Bergemann was Assistant Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.)

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Dr. John Callow Visiting lecturer at the University of Suffolk specializing in 17th-century politics and popular culture. Author of Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft.

 

Dr. Vikki Carr An independent scholar researching witchcraft beliefs of Early Modern England and Scotland, demonic beliefs, the North Berwick witch hunt, magic, print culture, and the animal familiar in Early Modern England.

 

Dr. Nicholas Christakis, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, Director of the Human Nature Lab, and author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society.

 

Dr. Alexander Cummins, a “consultant, poet, diviner and historian” researching early modern European and early American religion, philosophy, medicine, and magic, and author of the essay 'Transatlantic Cunning: English Occult Practices in the British American Colonies' in the book Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550 - 1800

 

Prof. Owen Davies Reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire and author of Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History, and America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem.

 

Susan Etlinger Industry analyst focusing on the business and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence and related technologies at the Altimeter Group 

 

Prof. Marion Gibson Associate Dean for Education in the College of Humanities, and Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, and author of Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing, Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches, and Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft.

 

Douglas Guilbeault is Assistant Professor in the Management of Organizations within the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, and has a background in philosophy and cognitive linguistics.

 

Dr. Dan Harms Associate Librarian at SUNY Courtland, author of The Book of Oberon, The Long-Lost Friend: An American Grimoire, and Of Angels, Demons, and Spirits: A Sourcebook of British Magic.

 

Alex Hogan Managing Partner in Etic Labs a research and development laboratory consisting of scientists, technologists, and artists interested in the development of new methods and technologies to promote and sustain collective social activism and the use of public data.

 

Prof. Ronald Hutton Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Bristol and author of Triumph of the Moon and The Witch: A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present.

 

Srijan Kumar Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, and a former postdoctoral researcher in data science, machine learning, and cyber safety in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

 

Prof. Sean McCloud Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, and Communication Studies Faculty Affiliate at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Dr. Charlotte-Rose Millar, a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland,  specializing in early modern English witchcraft, popular print, devils, and ghosts, and author of Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England.

 

Dr. Paolo Parigi Lead Trust Scientist for AirBnB, Associate Director for Computational Social Science, IRiSS at Stanford University, and author of The Rationalization of Miracles.

 

Dr. David Rand Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, an affiliate of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and the director of the Human Cooperation Laboratory and the Applied Cooperation Team. Associate Professor of Psychology, Economics, and Management at Yale University at the time of the interview.

 

Dr. Samira Shaikh Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

 

Prof. Tim Weninger Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame with appointments in the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

 

Dr. Samuel Woolley  Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Austin at Texas, Research Director at the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Project, and Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab at the Institute for the Future.