BRETT M. BENNETT is professor in history at the University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University. He has published widely on various aspects of global environmental history. His books include Plantations and Protected Areas: A Global History of Forest Management (2015).
SEMIH CELIK received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He is an expert on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century.
NICOLE Y. CHALMER is affiliated with the University of Western Australia. Her research interests focus on the eco-environmental history of food production and ecological interactions between nonhumans and humans, and their cultures and landscapes.
JODI FRAWLEY is an environmental historian based in Brisbane, Australia. She has published widely on different aspects of Australian environmental history. Her research interests include the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, the history of invasive species, the history of river environments, and the fishing communities in the Murray-Darling basin.
ULRIKE KIRCHBERGER is a research fellow at the University of Kassel. She has published on different aspects of global and colonial history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Her current research deals with the ecological networks and transfers between Australia, South Asia, and Africa from 1850–1920.
CAREY MCCORMACK is an instructor in world history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the United States. Her research explores indigenous plant knowledge and the development of botany in South and Southeast Asia during the nineteenth century.
IDIR OUAHES is a lecturer in international relations and history at Marbella International University Centre, Spain. He obtained his PhD degree in history from the University of Exeter in 2016. His dissertation was published as Syria and Lebanon under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire (2018).
FLORIAN WAGNER is assistant professor in contemporary history at the University of Erfurt. He earned his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, with a dissertation entitled “Colonial Internationalism: How Cooperation among Experts Reshaped Colonialism (1830s–1950s).”
SAMUEL ELEAZAR WENDT is a PhD candidate in history at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His research interests include the history of tropical botany and the extraction of colonial cash crops for industrial purposes, transnational history, and commodity chain analysis.
ALEXANDER VAN WICKEREN is affiliated with the University of Cologne. His research interests include the history of science and knowledge from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. He is particularly interested in agricultural knowledge and knowledge of goods and materials.
STEPHANIE ZEHNLE is professor of non-European history at the University of Kiel. She has published widely on the Islamic history of early nineteenth-century West Africa and on human–animal relations in Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.