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.
Thom van Dooren is an environmental philosopher and anthropologist. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and has published widely on the natural world, conservation and extinction.
David Clarke is Honorary Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. He has been active as an art historian (writing on both Western and Asian art) and as an artist (particularly as a photographer). Amongst his many books are Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization (Reaktion Books, 2001), Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City (2007), Water and Art (Reaktion Books, 2010), Chinese Art and its Encounter with the World (2011) and
China – Art – Modernity (2019).
Mels van Driel is a consultant urologist and sexologist at Groningen University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. He has written widely for scientific publications, newspapers and magazines, and is the author of Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis (Reaktion, 2009).
Joseph M. Carlin writes for Nutrition Today and teaches food history at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Joe Roman is a marine biologist based in Vermont, USA. He has conducted much research and written widely in the field of biology and cetacean studies.
Paul Thomas is Professor of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on Marx including Karl Marx and the Anarchists (1985) and Marxism and Scientific Socialism From Engels to Althusser (2008).
Ian D. Whyte is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of many books, including Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: A Social History of Migration (1991), Climatic Change and Human Society (1995) and Scotland’s Society and Economy in Transition (1997).
Toby Sonneman is the author of Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie Migrants in the West and Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust. She is a native of Chicago and currently teaches journalism in the Pacific Northwest, with frequent travels to the lemon growing areas of California and Italy.