Antoni Kapcia is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Nottingham. He is also the author of Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000) and Havana: The Making of Cuban Culture (2005).
Jeffrey Sissons is Professor in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, Massey University, New Zealand.
Matthew Smith is a Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. He is a past winner of the Roy Porter Prize and the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award, and was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker for 2012.
Rob Haskins is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Music at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and has been involved with John Cage’s music as both a scholar and a performer for almost twenty years. He is the author of Anarchic Societies of Sounds: The Number Pieces of John Cage (2009).
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.
Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony (1999).
Catherine Spooner is Professor in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She is the author of Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004).
Christine E. Jackson is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and a committee member of The Society for the History of Natural History for which she was awarded The Founders’ Medal in 1996. Her previous publications include Bird Paintings: The Eighteenth Century (1994), Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds (1998), Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World (1999), Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History (2001) and Peacock (Reaktion, 2006)