Esme Cleall is Senior Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield, UK. She is author of Colonising Disability: impairment and otherness in Britain and its empire, c. 1800-1914 (2022) and Missionary Discourses of Difference: negotiating otherness in the British empire, 1840-1900 (2012). Her work focuses on regimes of difference and the colonial construction and experience of power focusing on ideas about race and disability.Fae Dussart is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sussex, UK. She is author, with Alan Lester, of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance Protecting Aborigines in the Nineteenth Century British Empire (2014), and of In the Service of empire: domestic service and mastery in metropole and colony (Bloomsbury 2022). Her work explores the meaning and constitution of British, imperial and colonial identity, and the intersection of these with the formation of spaces and places.Onni Gust is Associate Professor in the History Department, University of Nottingham, UK. Their work explores the belonging and the human/animal boundary in the eighteenth-century British Empire, and the changing meaning of ‘sex’ in colonial context. Their publications include: Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1769-1830 (2021, Bloomsbury), ‘The Perilous Territory of Not Belonging’ in History Workshop Journal (2018) and a forthcoming chapter ‘History Beyond the Gender Binary’ for the Oxford Handbook of LGBT History.
