Rolf Reichardt is Head of the French Research Collection at the University Library of Mainz.
Hubertus Kohle is Professor of Art History at the University of Munich and the author of many books.
David Crowley is Head of the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He is the author of National Style and Nation-state: Design in Poland from the Vernacular Revival to the International Style (1992) and Socialism and Style: Material Culture in Post-war Eastern Europe (2000).
Barry Bell was a professional architect who worked extensively in Thailand.
Michael Sheringham is Professor of French Literature at the Royal Holloway College, University of London
David Campany is a writer, artist and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. He is the editor of the anthologies Art and Photography (2003) and The Cinematic (2007).
Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier is Professor of Art History at the Université Jean-Moulin in Lyon. She is the author of many books, including A History of Floral Painting (1992), A History of French Still Life in the Nineteenth Century (1998) and, with Eric Baratay, the widely acclaimed Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West (Reaktion, 2002).
Brian W. Blouet is Huby Professor of Geography and International Education at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the author of Halford MacKinder: A Biography (1987).
Fran Lloyd is the Head of Department of Art and Design History at Kingston University, Surrey. She is editor of Deconstructing Madonna (1993), Contemporary Arab Women’s Art (1999) and Displacement and Difference (2001).
Erin Haney is an independent curator working on projects concerning contemporary and 20th-century photographers from Africa and its diasporas. She is currently a Research Specialist at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.