Michael Freeman is an award-winning photographer and author and a specialist in South-east Asia. A Thai speaker, he has an intimate knowledge of the region, having reported on it for more than 25 years while following his private passion for food. His many acclaimed books include Spirit of Asia (2000), Palaces of the Gods: Khmer Art & Architecture in Thailand (2001), Angkor/Icon (2003), Cambodia (Reaktion, 2004), Lanna: Thailand’s Northern Kingdom (2001), and several on Angkor. He has photographed food books for and with Madhur Jaffrey, Alan Yau and Vatcharin Bhumichitr.
Ian J. Bickerton is Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of many books, including Unintended Consequences: The United States at War (2007) and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (2009) published by Reaktion.
Kenneth J. Hagan is Professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College, Monterey, California, and co-author of American Foreign Relations: A History (6th edn, 2004).
Marta Braun is Professor at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the author of Picturing Time: the Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1992) and in 1999 was co-winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award for the book Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (1998).
Laura B. Weiss is a journalist based in New York who specializes in food, travel and lifestyle. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Zagat restaurant guide and the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University.
Deirdre Jackson works in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library and is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
Anna Cole is Research Coordinator of the Tatau/Tattoo project at Goldsmiths College. She has published on race and gender in Australia.
Bronwen Douglas is Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University, Canberra. She is the author of Indigenous Presence and the Science of Race
Annie Potts is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
David J. Code (1966-2022) was Lecturer in Music at the University of Glasgow. He was the author of numerous articles, several of which have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, and Scottish Music Review.