Stuart Blume is Emeritus Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Educated at Oxford University, he has previously worked at the University of Sussex, the London School of Economics and in Whitehall.
Kathryn Brown is a Senior Lecturer in art history at Loughborough University, UK. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (2017) and (as editor) Digital Humanities and Art History (2020).
Christine Baumgarthuber is creator of The Austerity Kitchen, a one-of-a-kind culinary history blog. She is the author of Fermented Foods (2021) and Why Fast? (2023), both published by Reaktion Books.
June Hersh is the author of Recipes Remembered, a Celebration of Survival and The Kosher Carnivore. She lives in New York.
Jason Whittaker is Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln and previously worked as a journalist for IDG Media. His books include Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism (2019) and Divine Images (Reaktion, 2021).
Erik Butler is a researcher at the Yale School of Drama. He has translated many works of European literature and has written three books, including The Rise of the Vampire (also published by Reaktion).
Paul Atkinson is Professor Emeritus of Design and Design History at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the writer of the BBC guitar documentary Cigar Box Blues: The Makers of a Revolution (2019).
Helen Crisp is a writer and editor, and co-author with Jules Stewart of Madrid: Midnight City (Reaktion, 2021).
Until his death in 2002, Roy Porter was Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and the author of many books.
Andrew Robinson is the author of some 25 books on the arts and sciences, and writes for Current World Archaeology, The Lancet, Nature and Science. His recent books include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts (2009), Earthquake: Nature and Culture (Reaktion, 2012) and India: A Short History (2014). He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.