Peter Meel is director of research of the Leiden University Institute for History. His teaching and research focus is on Caribbean history, primarily the political

Rosemarijn Hoefte is Professor of the History of Suriname after 1873 at the University of Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the KITLV in Leiden.

Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen is a Post. Doc. researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She has worked as a social and medical anthropologist in Southeast Asia

Cynthia Chou is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa, also holding the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family Chair in Asian Studies.

Tina Su Lyn Lim is an independent tech consultant in Palo Alto, California. Her M.Sc. thesis in mathematics at the University of Copenhagen forms the

Olivia Killias is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, and has extended research experience in Indonesia

Liangyan Ge is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. Seen as being at the forefront of current research

Yvonne Spielmann is a visiting research fellow at the NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore, and author of numerous art and cultural studies publications, for

Angie Bexley is an anthropologist who has published widely on issues of social transformation and the nation state. She is currently based at The Asia