John Edward Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology Emeritus at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books include Modeling the Past (2023, Berghahn), Understanding the Human Mind (2020, Routledge), and A Talent for Friendship (2015, Oxford).

Eugene Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He studies cultural ecology and medical anthropology. His books include The Food of China (Yale University Press. 1988), Everyone Eats (2014), Warning Signs of Genocide (2012) and Sustaining Social Conflict (2022).

Foreman Bandama is the Assistant Curator of African Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, and Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His article: Elites and commoners at Great Zimbabwe: archaeological and ethnographic insights on social power, was awarded the 2019 Antiquity journal best article.

Abhik Ghosh is Professor of Social Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, where he has been Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology and the Coordinator of the CAS-II Program at the University of Delhi, he worked on tribal symbolism in Jharkhand (The World of the Oraon, 2006). He started teaching in 1998, and has been involved in research in North-West and Central India.

Marcia Leenen-Young is a senior lecturer in Pacific in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. Her research interests include the historical relationship between New Zealand and the Pacific, Indigenous Pacific ways of telling history, Pacific research methodologies, and Pacific pedagogies. Marcia is the first editor of Waka Kuaka: the Journal of the Polynesian Society of Pacific descent.