Ellen Adams is Reader in Classical Archaeology and Liberal Arts at King’s College London. She has participated in many archaeological excavations in Greece and published widely on the subject. She is the author of Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period (2017).
Nicholas Nicastro has taught history, anthropology and psychology at Cornell University and Hobart-William Smith Colleges. His books include Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe (2008), and he has written for the New York Times, the New York Observer and Archaeology.
Justin M. Jacobs is Professor of History at American University, Washington, DC. His books include The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (2020).
Christina Guillaumier is Research Fellow and Reader in Music and Cultural Practice at the Royal College of Music, London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her books include The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev (2020).
William Furley is Emeritus Professor of Greek at Heidelberg University and Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, London. His publications include Greek Hymns (2001) and three editions of plays by Menander: Epitrepontes (2009), Perikeiromene (2015) and Misoumenos (2021).
Neil Vickers is Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at King’s College London. He has had a career in epidemiology and has published widely on literature and medical subjects. He is the author of Coleridge and the Doctors (2004).
Jamie Merchant lives in Chicago. His writing has appeared in many publications including the Brooklyn Rail, The Baffler, The Nation and In These Times, and focuses on political economy and politics.
Tahir Kamran is Head of the Department of the Liberal Arts at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Director of the Khaldunia Centre for Historical Research and the editor of the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies. His books include Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond (with Ian Talbot, 2017).