MARC DAVID BAER este profesor de istorie la London School of Economics and Political Science și autorul a numeroase cărți, printre care Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in the Ottoman Europe (Oxford University Press, 2008), distinsă cu Albert Hourani Book Award, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Stanford University Press, 2010), Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2020) și German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (Columbia University Press, 2020).