Aurélien Girard is Senior Lecturer at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, a member of CERHIC, specializing in the multifaceted history of Eastern Christians (16th–19th c.) and the history of European orientalism. His latest publications include Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, and Vassa Kontouma (eds.), Livres et confessions chrétiennes orientales. Histoire connectée entre l’Empire ottoman, le monde slave et l’Occident (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Turnhout, Brepols, 2023).