Kieran Williams is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Drake University, Iowa, and previously was a Senior Lecturer in Politics at University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. His books include The Prague Spring and its aftermath: Czechoslovak politics, 1968-1970.
Ira Nadel, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen, Tom Stoppard and David Mamet, as well as studies of Joyce, Ezra Pound and Modernism.
Joseph A. Amato is Emeritus Professor of History and Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is the author of many cultural and intellectual studies, as well as works of local and regional history including Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible (2000), On Foot: A History of Walking (2004) and Surfaces, A History (2013).
Robert McCarter is a practising architect and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. His books include Frank Lloyd Wright (Reaktion, 2006), Louis I. Kahn (2005) and Understanding Architecture (2012).
Sylvia Lovegren is a freelance writer and cookbook collector. She is the author of Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (2005) and contributed numerous articles to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004).
Joachim Schlör is a cultural historian based at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Nights in the Big City (Reaktion, 1998, New Edition 2016) and Tel Aviv: From Dream to City (Reaktion, 1999).
Martha Jay is a writer and editor based in London.
Kantha Shelke practises, writes and teaches about food science, nutrition, food law and culinary history. She holds adjunct/visiting faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at MCI Management Center in Innsbruck, Austria.
Clare Harris is Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford, Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Her previous award-winning publications include The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet (2012) and In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959 (Reaktion, 1999).
Vu Hong Lien is a Vietnamese-British historian, and a guest lecturer at SOAS based in London, uk. She is author of Royal Hue, Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (2015) and co-author of Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger, a History of Vietnam (Reaktion Books, 2014).