Megan J. Elias is the author of Food in the United States, 1890-1945 (2009).
Catherine Speck is Professor of Art History at the University of Adelaide. She has published widely on women, war and art; modernism, cosmopolitanism and expatriatism; and the relationship between exhibitions and art histories.
Rachel Dwyer is Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema (2006) and Bollywood’s India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India (Reaktion, 2014). And, with Divia Patel Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film (Reaktion, 2002)
David Stephen Calonne has taught and lectured at numerous universities, including Harvard and Oxford, and is the author and editor of numerous books, including William Saroyan: My Real Work is Being , Bebop Buddhist Ecstasy: Saroyan’s Influence on Kerouac and the Beats with an introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski (Reaktion, 2012). He has edited several collections of Bukowski’s writings, including Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008), Absence of the Hero (2010) and More Notes of A Dirty Old Man (2011).
Ben Russell is Curator of Mechanical Engineering at the Science Museum, London.
Terry Satsuki Milhaupt (1959–2012) was an independent art historian based in New York, a guest curator and an internationally recognized expert on Japanese textiles. She contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and publications, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).
David Maclagan is a retired university lecturer and art therapist. based in Yorkshire. He has published numerous articles on Outsider art, art therapy and image-based psychology, and is the author of Creation Myths: Man’s Introduction to the World (1977), and Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and Making Sense (2001) and Outsider Art (Reaktion, 2009).
Henry H. Work is a cooper who has worked in the vineyards of the Napa Valley and California and with the whiskey distilleries of Kentucky. He has written extensively on the subject, including for Practical Winery and Vineyard and Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker magazines. A native of the USA, he now lives in Tavira, Portugal.
Frank J. Coppa is Emeritus Professor of History and Director of Doctoral Studies in Modern World History at St John’s University in New York. He is the author of The Life and Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: Between History and Controversy (2013) and The Papacy Confronts the Modern World (2003). He was awarded the first lifetime achievement award of the American Catholic Historical Association, and cited by it as a world-renowned scholar of the modern papacy.
Stephen A. Royle is Professor of Island Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a founding member of the International Small Island Studies Association, Deputy Editor of Island Studies Journal and has visited 778 islands across the globe.