Matthew Beresford is a consultant archaeologist specializing in community archaeology, education and research based in Nottinghamshire. He is author of From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth (Reaktion, 2008).
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. His books include The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992), Gauguin’s Skirt (1997), Nineteenth-Century Art, A Critical History, now in its third edition and The Abu Ghraib Effect (Reaktion Books, 2007). He lives in Highland Park, Illinois.
Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in History of Science, Lancaster University, and an independent scholar living in Moscow. His previous books include Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (2007).
Alan Rauch is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his many books include Dolphin (2013) in Reaktion’s Animal series.
Oskar Bätschmann is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Art History at the University of Bern. His books include Hans Holbein (Reaktion Books, 1997, Revised and Expanded Second Edition 2013) and Giovanni Bellini (Reaktion Books, 2007).
Pascal Griener is a Professor at the Institute of Art History, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. She is the author of Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia (2008), The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (2003) and Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia (2001).
Maitrii Aung-Thwinis Associate Professor of Southeast Asian and Burmese History at the National University of Singapore. He is author of The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (2011) and co-author of A New History of Southeast Asia (2010).
Michael Aung-Thwin is Chair and Professor of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He is the author of The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend that was Lower Burma (2005) and co-editor of New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia: Continuing Explorations (2011).
Gwendolyn Leick is Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Her publications include Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (2000) and The Babylonians: An Introduction (2002).