Stefan Kamola is a historian at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Making Mongol History: Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh (2019).
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie is a prize-winning translator and scholar of Russian and Ukrainian literature, the editor of Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations (2012) and translator of Vega’s Fugitive: Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva (2026). She lives in Brunswick, Maine.
Martha L. Crump is Adjunct Professor of Biology at Utah State University and Northern Arizona University. She is an award-winning herpetologist, and her many books include A Year with Nature (2018).
Gregory Ariail is Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Alabama. He is the author of Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages (2025).
Adam Tismaneanu is a writer, journalist and independent researcher. His work has appeared in various outlets including Newsweek România and POLITICO Europe.
Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the co-author of Communism and Culture (2022).
Jay M. Pasachoff was Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts and co-author of Cosmos (Reaktion Books, 2019) and The Sun (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer and curator. His publications include Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq (2020), Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (2020) and High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art (2006).
Jonathan Spangler is Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His previous books include The Society of Princes (2009) and Monsieur: Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550–1800 (2021).
Natasha Loges is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, specializing in song, concert culture and gender. She is the author of Brahms and His Poets (2017).