Philip Boobbyer is Reader in History at the University of Kent. His research interests are mainly in the areas of Russian history, and political and religious thought in the twentieth century. His recent publications include: Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia (London, 2005); and The Spiritual Vision of Frank Buchman (University Park, Pennsylvania, 2013).
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard is a historian of modern South Asia and its global and regional environment. She is presently Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 20th Century International History at King’s College London. Her book Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas. 1910–1962 has recently been published by Cambridge University Press.
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas has obtained his Ph. D. from the European University Institute (Florence) and is professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (on leave) and, since 2012, of Modern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. He is interested in comparative nationalism, migration studies and the cultural history of war. His most recent book is Die spanische Blaue Division an der Ostfront, 1941–45 (Münster, 2016).
Hunter Hollins is in the graduate programme in the History Department at George Washington University. His is also a Program Specialist in the Space History Department of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of ‘The War Bond Poster: State Fundraising and National Cohesion through Mass Media during the World Wars’, Federal History Journal (2015); ‘Science and Military Influences on the Ascent of Aerospace Development in Southern California’, Southern California Quarterly (2014); and co-author, with Allan Needell, of ‘Lunar Module, LM-2’, in Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (2014). He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Michael P.M. Finch is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. Prior to this he was the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of War at the University of Oxford. He is the author of A Progressive Occupation? The Gallieni-Lyautey Method and Colonial Pacification in Tonkin and Madagascar, 1885–1900 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
