Jared Poley is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Georgia State University. He is the author and co-editor of books such as The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (2016) Money in the German-speaking Lands (2017).

Daniel Riches is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Alabama, where he has worked since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2007.

Professor Mary Lindemann inspired several generations of historical researchers in early modern history and culture. She has served as president of the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association and is the author of pathbreaking scholarly work in the history of medicine, urban space, diplomacy, and of women. In honor of her scholarship, service, and dedication, Healing and Harm gathers a group of leading scholars that includes her students, contemporaries, and those who have been inspired by her work to continue Lindemann's prolific arguments and observations on early modern, central European and German history and culture.