Laura Mason was a food historian and writer with a special interest in British foods and food customs. She was the author of Sweets and Candy (Reaktion, 2018) and a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (2015).
Professor Bill Leatherbarrow is Director of the British Astronomical Association’s Lunar Section, and a life-long amateur astronomer and observer of the Moon. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books and in 2016 minor planet 95852 was named after him by the International Astronomical Union.
Zayde Antrim is Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (2012).
Desmond Morris is a world-renowned zoologist and television presenter, and the author of many best-selling books on human and animal behaviour, including Cats in Art (Reaktion, 2017). He has also written four books in Reaktion’s Animal series.
Andrew Levitt teaches in the design studios at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Canada. He has also trained and practised as a psychotherapist. He is the author of The Inner Studio: A Designer’s Guide to the Resources of the Psyche (2006). www.andrewlevitt.org
With Sidney Mintx, Christine M. Du Bois is a former manager of the Johns Hopkins Project on Soybeans. She is a co-author and editor of The World of Soy (2008), as well as the author of Images of West Indian Immigrants in Mass Media: The Struggle for a Positive Ethnic Reputation (2004). She lives in Pennsylvania.
Olli Lagerspetz is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His most recent books include Trust, Ethics and Human Reason (2015) and, with Kirsti Suolinna, Edward Westermarck: Intellectual Networks, Philosophy and Social Anthropology (2014).
Julian Preece is Professor of German Studies at Swansea University. His other books include The Life and Work of Günter Grass: Literature, History, Politics (2nd edn 2004) and Baader-Meinhof and the Novel: Narratives of the Nation, Fantasies of the Revolution (2012).
Niccolò Guicciardini teaches history of science at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is the author of Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton’s Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (1999) and Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (2009).
Paul R. Laird is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas School of Music, where he has taught since 1994. His previous books include The Chichester Psalms of Leonard Bernstein (2010) and with co-editor William A. Everett The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (3rd edn, 2017).