Florence Bernault is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A specialist in modern Central African history, her publications include Démocraties ambigües en Afrique centrale: Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, 1940-1965 (1996) and A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa (2003), an edited volume.
Mark Philip Bradley is associate professor of history at Northwestern University. The author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000) and coeditor of Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights (2002), he is completing a book that examines the place of the United States in the global human rights revolutions of the twentieth century.
Sumit Ganguly holds the Rabindranth Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University in Bloomington. A specialist on regional security issues in South Asia, he is the author, editor, or coeditor of fifteen books on the region. He is also the editor of the India Review, the only refereed social science journal devoted to the study of contemporary India in North America.
Greg Grandin is professor of history at New York University. He is the author of the prize-winning The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (2000), The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (2004), and Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006). Recently a recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships, Grandin has written for Harper’s, The Nation, and Boston Review, as well as for the American Historical Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review.
James N. Green is associate professor of modern Latin American history at Brown University, Long Beach, the president of the Brazilian Studies Association, and a coordinating editor of the scholarly journal Latin American Perspectives. His first book, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (1999), has also appeared in Portuguese. He is the author of “We Cannot Remain Silent”: Opposition to the Brazilian Dictatorship in the United States, 1964-85 (forthcoming), and he is currently completing a manuscript titled “More Love and More Desire: A History of the Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, and Transgendered Movement.
Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has published four books on the French Revolution and assorted others on historical methods, on eroticism and pornography, and on the history of Western Civilization. She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002. Her book Inventing Human Rights was published in 2007.
Yanni Kotsonis teaches Russian, modern Greek, and modern European history at New York University. He has published books and articles on political economy and the history of the state. He is currently writing on the political and ideological history of taxation in Europe and Russia before and after 1917 and is beginning research on the history of the Ionian Islands under French, Russian, British, and Greek rule.
Timothy McDaniel is professor of sociology at University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Autocracy, Modernization and Revolution in Russia and Iran (1991). He was a member of the Social Sciences panel of the National Academy of Sciences group that produced the report “Making the Nation Safer.” More recently he was a member of the Islam committee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which produced the volume Modernization, Democracy, and Islam (2005)
Kristin Ross is the author, most recently, of May ‘68 and Its Afterlives (2002), a study of French memory of the political upheavals of the 1960s, published in France as Mai 68 et ses vies ultérieures (2005).
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, most recently, of China’s Brave New World—And Other Tales for Global Times (2007) and has contributed commentaries and reviews to periodicals such as the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Foreign Policy, History Workshop Journal, the China Quarterly, New Left Review, and Newsweek.
Alexander Woodside specializes in Chinese and Southeast Asian history and is based at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. He is most recently the author of Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History (2006).
Marilyn B. Young teaches history at NYU. Her current interests are reflected in a collection of essays she edited with Lloyd Gardner, The New American Empire (2005) and a book she coauthored with with Lloyd Gardner, Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (2007).
David Zaret is professor of sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he recently served as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has contributed to a variety of journals, including the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review, and his most recent book is Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (2000).
Michael Zuckert is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at University of Notre Dame. He has written on the American founding and the liberal tradition, including the study, The Natural Rights Republic. In 2006 he published The Truth About Leo Strauss, a book coauthored with Catherine Zuckert.