J.A.G. Roberts is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, and is author of China Through Western Eyes (3 vols, 1991-6) and A History of China (1999).
Barry Curtis is a Fellow of the London Consortium, Tutor at the Royal College of Art, and has written widely on architecture, film, art and visual culture.
Sonja Neef is a cultural analyst and media historian. From 2003 to 2010 she was Junior Professor of European Media-Culture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She is the author of Kalligramme (Amsterdam, 2000), and of many articles in the field of European media and culture.
Patricia Herlihy was Emeritus Professor of History at Brown University.
Erika Janik is a freelance writer and a producer at Wisconsin Public Radio. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Midwest Living, Wisconsin Trails and Wisconsin Magazine of History and Mental Floss. She’s also the author of A Short History of Wisconsin (2010), Odd Wisconsin (2007) and Madison: A History of a Model City (2010).
Michael Charlesworth is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Gothic Revival (2002) and Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth Century Britain and France (2008). He is also the editor of The English Garden (1993).
Ziyad Marar is Editorial Director at Sage Publications, London.
Bernd Brunner is a Berlin-based writer. He is also the author of Bears: A Brief History (2007) and Moon: A Brief History (2010).
Lisa Jardine is Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College London, and author of many books.
Lesley Jacobs Solmonson is a spirits and cocktail journalist and speaker who has written for numerous publications, including the LA Times, Imbibe and Wine Enthusiast. Her books The 12 Bottle Bar and Gin: A Global History were finalists at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. She serves as a Curatorial Consultant at the Center for Culinary Culture in Los Angeles.