WALTER ARMBRUST Albert Hourani Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, UKJOHN CHALCRAFT Lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire / Imperialism, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SHARAD CHARI Lecturer in Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKPAULO DRINOT Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UKBENJAMIN FORTNA Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK ALAN KNIGHT Professor of the History of Latin America, Oxford University, UKADRIENNE LEBAS Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Michigan State University, USA and Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UKJAMES MCDOUGALL Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Princeton University, USARANA MITTER University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UKMELANIE NEWTON Assistant Professor of History, the University of Toronto, CanadaYASEEN NOORANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, USA