Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester. He has published widely on global music culture, and his books include Dancefloor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction (2020).
Katie Milestone is an academic and co-lead of the Music and Sonic Studies Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching and researching youth subcultures, music and identity. Her books include Gender and Popular Culture (2nd edn, 2020).
Jack Margolin is an independent researcher who has studied private military contractors and Russian criminal networks since 2014. He previously led conflict finance investigations at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a non-profit investigating crime and conflict. His investigations have been cited by the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, the Financial Times and Politico. He lives in Washington, DC.
Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon is the Chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy. He is the author of many books, including Microhistory – Conflicting Paths (1998) and The History War: Essays and Narratives on Ideology (2006).
G. A. Loud is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds. His previous books include The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck (2019) and The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020–1300 (2021).
Robert Lethbridge is a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of London. He is currently Hon. Professor at the University of St Andrews. His books include Zola’s Painters (2022). He lives in Fife, Scotland.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Missouri State University. Her books include In the Footsteps of Christ: Hans Memling’s Passion Narratives and the Devotional Imagination in the Early Modern Netherlands (2013).
James King is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His previous books include Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator (2022) and ‘Our Little Gang’: The Lives of the Vorticists (Reaktion, 2025).
Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in medieval French literature, Mediterranean studies and the global Middle Ages. Her publications include an annotated translation of Marco Polo’s The Description of the World (2016).
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He has published extensively on Central Europe and on global art history, including Arcimboldo (2009) and Toward a Geography of Art (2004).