Patricio "Jojo" Abinales is professor of Asian Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Originally from the Philippine island of Mindanao, he researches and writes extensively about Philippine politics for both academic and popular audiences. His recent books include State and Society in the Philippines (2nd ed., 2017), co-written with Donna Amoroso, and Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State (3rd ed., 2020).
Tonio Andrade is professor of Chinese and Global History at Emory University. His books include The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China (2021), The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History (2016), Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West (2011), and How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (2008). He believes that people should drive cars as little as possible and lives in Decatur, Georgia, with his wife, Andrea, and three children.
Will Fitzgibbon is a senior ICIJ reporter. Will joined ICIJ in 2014 and coordinated the Fatal Extraction investigation that examined the impact of Australian mining companies in Africa. It remains one of the largest pan-African collaborations of journalists. Will has reported on ICIJ projects, including Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files, Luanda Leaks, West Africa Leaks, Paradise Papers and Panama Papers.
Victoria Fredeis professor of Russian history at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on cultural, intellectual, and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia. Her first book, Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia was published in 2011. She is currently writing a book about friendship and the ideology of the Russian state from 1750 to 1850.
Durba Ghosh is professor of history at Cornell University and the director of the Humanities Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in history from Berkeley. Her research has focused on gender, culture, law, archives, and colonial governance British India. In connection with this research, she has taught courses such as the Global History of Love and Afterlives of 9/11.
Emily Gottreich is a specialist in Moroccan Jewish history and Muslim-Jewish relations in the Arab-Islamic world. She is the author of The Mellah of Marrakech: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City (Indiana University Press: 2007), published in French translation by the University of Mohammed V Press in Rabat in 2016, and co-editor with Daniel Schroeter of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press: 2011). Her most recent book is Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic Times to the Present (London: I.B. Tauris). She currently serves as Adjunct Full Professor in Global Studies and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, where from 2014-2020 she was Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She is a three-time Fulbright awardee, a past president of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and a winner of the Phi Beta Kappa award for Excellence in Teaching.
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the western Indian Ocean in the medieval and early modern period (c. 1200-1800). She is the author of Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650, Oxford University Press, 2020, a finalist for the 2022 British Association for South Asian Studies Book Prize. She is currently working on Muslim scholarly networks between Gujarat and the Arabian Peninsula in the sixteenth century.
Alan Karras is Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs. In his more than twenty years at Berkeley, he has taught courses on world history, classical political economy, Caribbean history, and the history of transnational crime—among others. His research interests are in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, and global interactions more broadly, especially as they relate to transnational transgressions like smuggling, fraud, and corruption. He is the author of Smuggling: Corruption and Contraband in World History (2010), Sojourners in the Sun: Scots Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (1993), and the coeditor, with John R. McNeill, of Atlantic American Societies: From Columbus through Abolition, 1492-1888 (1992). He also has co-edited a book, Encounters Old and New in World History (2017), with Laura Mitchell, that makes a case for historians to engage more with the public. He served as one of the editors for the Cambridge Dictionary of World History and was on the board of editors for Cambridge University Press's multi-volume Cambridge World History. Since 2015, he has been the lead author for the AP Edition and the Lead Media Author for other editions of the widely used textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (W.W. Norton).
Kwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in African history and on worldwide African histories and cultures. With extensive archival and field research in West Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America, his writings focus on African and African diasporic histories, as well as major themes in world history. He is the author of Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation (Duke U. Press, 2019), The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke U. Press, 2016), Transatlantic Africa, 1440-1888 (Oxford U. Press, 2014), The Akan Diaspora in the Americas (Oxford U. Press, 2010), among other books. A father and husband first and foremost, Konadu is also a healer (Tanɔ ɔbosomfoɔ) as well as a publisher of scholarly books about African world histories and cultures through Diasporic Africa Press. His life work is devoted to knowledge production and the worldwide communities and struggles of peoples of African ancestry.
Devin Leigh is a researcher and educator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received a PhD in History from the University of California, Davis, and he currently teaches African, Latin American, and World History at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. His research explores the history of the Atlantic World during the eighteenth century, with a focus on connections between the Caribbean, West Africa, and Great Britain. His scholarship has appeared in such academic journals as Slavery & Abolition, Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Caribbean History, and History in Africa.
Maureen C. Miller, University of California, Berkeley, is a historian of medieval Europe with a particular interest in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in 1989 from Harvard University, where she studied with the distinguished social and economic historian, David Herlihy. The author of three prize-winning monographs, she has utilized various forms of material culture—surviving rural churches, ecclesiastical and secular palaces, as well as liturgical vestments—to illuminate changes in the western Church and the culture of the secular clergy across the Middle Ages. Most notably, she is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy (2000) and Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe c. 800-1200 (2014) as well as the editor of a special centennial issue of The Catholic Historical Review (101:1, 2017) dedicated to Catholic material culture. She is currently working on ecclesiastical registers and the 'documentary revolution' in medieval Italy with special attention to material aspects of new documentary forms and administrative systems.
Camilla Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of numerous books on Indigenous history, among them Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004), Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006), and Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (2019), which won the 2020 Cundill Prize in History. Her research has been supported by such entities as the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.