Kim Todd is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her book Tinkering with Eden? A Natural History of Exotics in America (2001) was the winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. She is also the author of Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (2007).
Andrew Law is Senior Lecturer in Town Planning and the British Director of the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University. His research examines the way in which societies, governments, social movements, sub-cultures, communities and individuals construct their pasts. His work has been published in Architectures: Modernism and After (2004).
Sigurdur Gylfi Magnússon is the Chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy. He is the author of many books, including Microhistory – Conflicting Paths (1998) and The History War: Essays and Narratives on Ideology (2006).
Paul Mattick is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Adelphi University, New York. He is the author of Business as Usual (Reaktion, 2012) and Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital (2019), and editor of Reaktion’s Field Notes series. He is the former editor of the International Journal of Political Economy, and lives in San Francisco.
Rebecca Stott is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, and is the author and co-author of many books including The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale (1992), Darwin and the Barnacle (2003) and Theatres of Glass: The Woman who Brought the Sea to the City ( 2003).
Philip Carr-Gomm is a writer and psychologist. His many books include Sacred Places (2008), Druid Mysteries (2002) and The Book of English Magic (with Richard Heygate, 2009).
Olwyn M. Blouet is Professor of History at Virginia State University. She is also the co-author of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey (4th edition, 2005).
Scott A. Lukas is Department Chair in Anthropology and Sociology at Lake Tahoe College, California, USA. He is also the Editor of The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self (2007).
Donald Richie was born in Ohio and has lived in Tokyo for over 50 years. He is the author of many books including the travel book The Inland Sea and Tokyo: A View of the City (Reaktion, 1999) and The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan (Reaktion, 2003).
James Hamilton is an art historian and curator. His books include Turner – A Life (1997); Turner and the Scientists (1998), Faraday – The Life (2002) and London Lights – The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World 1805-51 (2007). He is University Curator and Honorary Reader at the University of Birmingham.