Andrew Lack is a lecturer in biology at Oxford Brookes University. His previous books include Redbreast: The Robin in Life and Literature (2008), Instant Notes in Plant Biology, with David Evans (2005), and The Natural History of Pollination, with Michael Proctor and Peter Yeo (1996).
Doug Millard is Deputy Keeper, Technologies and Engineering, at the Science Museum in London and has produced many space exhibitions, including Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age (2015). He is the editor of Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age (2015) and author of Black Arrow: A History of a Satellite Launch Vehicle and its Engines (2001).
Timothy May is Department Head and Associate Professor of Central Eurasian and Middle Eastern History at North Georgia College and State University. He is the author of The Mongol Art of War: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Military System (2007) and Culture and Customs of Mongolia (2009).
Cynthia Hahn is Professor of Art History at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her previous books include Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of the Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century (2001) and Strange Beauty: Origins and Issues in the Making of Medieval Reliquaries, 400–c. 1204 (2012).
Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.
Thomas Hoerber is Professor in European Studies at ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France. He is the author of five books, including The Foundations of Europe (2006) and European Space Policy: European Integration and the Final Frontier (2015).
Marcia Pointon is an independent scholar and research consultant; she is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is the author of Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (2009), Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-century England, Portrayal and the Search for Identity (Reaktion, 2012) and History of Art: A Student’s Handbook (5th edn 2014).
B. W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University, and Emeritus Professor, University of the West Indies. His many books include How Food Made History (2012) and A Concise History of the Caribbean (2011).
Lucy M. Long is a folklorist, food studies scholar and Director of the non-profit Center for Food and Culture in Ohio.
Claudia Mesch is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. Her books include Modern Art at the Berlin Wall (2009) and Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945 (2013). She is a founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.