Ivan Gaskell is Margaret S. Winthrop Curator at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. He is the co-editor of Vermeer Studies, and his most recent book is Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts (1999).
Hannele Klemettilä-McHale is a postdoctoral researcher of the Academy of Finland and a specialist in medieval cultural history. Her publications include monographs, books, articles and newspaper columns, and she has appeared on radio and television.
Ron M. Brown is Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Environment at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Nicoletta Misler is Professor in the Department of Eastern European Studies at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.
Wendy Salmond is Head of the Art History program at Chapman University, Orange, California.
Mary E. Davis is a member of the Capstone Faculty at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her books include Classic Chic (2006), Erik Satie (Reaktion, 2007) and Ballets Russes Style (Reaktion, 2010).
Professor Diana Donald was formerly Head of the Department of Art History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on the history of prints, and on images of animals and the natural world, most recently in the widely acclaimed Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (2009).
Nigel Aston is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Religious Change in Europe 1650-1914 (1997) and Religion and Revolution in France 1780-1804 (2000).
Jerome Silbergeld is Professor of Art History at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several books on twentieth-century Chinese painting.
Dan Wylie is Associate Professor of English at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of several books, including Myth of Iron: Shaka in History (2006), Toxic Belonging?: Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa (2008) and Elephant (Reaktion, 2008).