Derek M. Elsom is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Oxford Brookes University. His books include Earth: The Making, Shaping and Workings of a Planet (1992), Weather Explained (1997).
Katy Siegel is the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University, New York, and contributing editor at Artforum. She is the author of ‘The Heroine Paint’: After Frankenthaler (2015) and co-author of Art Works: Money (2004).
Samantha Riches is a cultural historian based at Lancaster University. She is the author of Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (2011) and St George: Hero, Martyr and Myth (2005).
Ernst van Alphen is Professor of Literary Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His previous publications include Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (Reaktion, 1992), Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (2005) and Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature and Theory (1998).
Angela Turner is Managing Editor of the journal Animal Behaviour. She lives in Nottingham.
Michele Bacci is Professor of Medieval Art History in the Faculty of Humanities and director of the Medieval Institute at Fribourg University, Switzerland. He is the author of five books and many articles, and has edited two volumes of essays.
Peter J. T. Morris is Keeper of Research Projects at the Science Museum, London and an Honorary Research Associate of the Science and Technology Studies Department, UCL. He edited Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum (2010).
Anthea Callen is Professor of Art (Practice-led Research) at the Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, and Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture at the University of Nottingham. She is an internationally renowned specialist on the history of artists’ materials and techniques whose publications include The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity (2000) and Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti (2008, co-edited with Fae Brauer).
Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her research explores human relationships with water, and her previous books include The Meaning of Water (2004) and Water: Nature and Culture (Reaktion, 2015).
Trevor Curnow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cumbria and an internationally recognized authority on wisdom. He is the author of a number of books, including Oracles of the Ancient World (2004) and Wisdom in the Ancient World (2010).