G. R. Berridge is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Leicester, and a Senior Fellow of the Geneva-based DiploFoundation. He was an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to which he still contributes, and his most recent book is Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (6th edn, 2022).
Sarah Blake McHam is Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and author of Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the ‘Natural History’ (2013).
Katarzyna Michalska is a cultural historian in Tübingen, and co-author of the Eyewitness Guide to Munich and the Bavarian Alps (2002).
Melissa E. Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer who has contributed to Art in America, Frieze, Third Text, and Aperture, among other publications. She is the author of Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision (1999).
Rosina Buckland is Curator of the Japanese Collections at the British Museum, London. Her publications include Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan (2010).
Carol Atack is a Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches classical Greek and ancient philosophy. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and Anachronism and Antiquity (with Tim Rood and Tom Phillips, 2020).
Jennifer Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware. Her publications include Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors (2019).
Manuel Lucena Giraldo is Adjunct Professor at IE University and ESCP Business School Europe. His books include Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World (2020, ed. Lauren Beck).
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Straits (2022) and Out of Our Minds (2019).