Katarzyna Michalska is a cultural historian in Tübingen, and co-author of the Eyewitness Guide to Munich and the Bavarian Alps (2002).
Robert Mills is a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature at King’s College, London, and co-editor of
Caterina Albano is a senior research fellow and curator for Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts, London.
Marion Copeland is former Professor of English at Holyoke Community College, Massachusetts, US.
Catherine Spooner is Professor in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She is the author of Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004).
Mark Shiel is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City (2006), and co-editor of Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (2001) and Screening the City (2003).
Khuram Iqbal is Head of Research at the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has conducted extensive field research on Islamist organizations, suicide terrorism, radicalization and madrassas in Pakistan.
Rohan Gunaratna is head of the International Centre on Political Violence and Terrorism Research and Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. and Senior Fellow, Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy’s Jebsen Centre for Counter Terrorism Studies. He is the author of the best-selling Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (2002) and Countering Terrorism (Reaktion, 2006).
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)
Tim Jordan teaches in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, London. His books include Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet (1999).