Ted Harrison is an author, artist, TV producer and journalist. In 2011 his art installation Innocence Betrayed: Remembrance Day was unveiled in St Paul’s Cathedral. He has reported for various BBC Radio 4 News and Current Affairs programmes, including Today, World at One, PM and World Tonight, and is the author of many books including Diana: Myth and Reality and Remembrance Today: Poppies, Grief and Heroism (Reaktion, 2012), and produced the award-winning BBC documentary Elvis and the Presleytarians with the late John Peel.
Paul Dobraszczyk is an architectural writer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. His books include Future Cities (2019) and Animal Architecture (2023), both published by Reaktion, as well as Architecture and Anarchism (2021).
James Brooke-Smith is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Village Voice and Public Books.
Donald Rayfield is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Anton Chekhov: A Life (1997, 2021), and Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia (Reaktion Books, 2012), which was translated into Russian and Georgian.
Rob Boddice is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellow based at Freie Universität Berlin and McGill University, Montreal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of The History of Emotions (2018), Pain: A Very Short Introduction (2017) and The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (2016).
Jonathan Morris is Research Professor at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a historian of consumption and consumer societies, co-editor of Coffee: The Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage and the Industry (2013), and a judge for the Speciality Coffee Association’s Best Product in Show awards.
Sharon Hudgins is an award-winning author, with five non-fiction books and hundreds of food and travel articles published worldwide. Her books include The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East (2003) and T-Bone Whacks & Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East (2018).
Derek Sayer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, Canada. His many previous books include The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (1998), Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (2013) and Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Social Sciences (2017). He lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Michael Bravo is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge and is Hugh Brammer Fellow in Geography at Downing College. He has spent three decades researching, travelling and living in the Arctic. He is the author of Narrating the Arctic (2002) and Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy (2010).
Dag Øistein Endsjø is Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, specializing in gender, human rights and death studies. His published books include Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies (2008) and Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity (2009).