Alexander Morrison is Fellow and Tutor in History at New College, Oxford, specialising in the History of Modern War and of the Russian Empire in Central Asia. He was previously Professor of History at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Liverpool, UK, and a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 2012 he won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is the author of Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868–1910. A Comparison with British India (Oxford, 2008).
Stephen M. Miller is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Maine. He is the author of Volunteers on the Veld: Britain’s Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902, and Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa.
Jessica Miller is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maine. She teaches courses in contemporary moral problems and ethical theory. Her research areas are clinical ethics and philosophy of fiction. She has published her work in Bioethics, The American Journal of Bioethics, and Literature and Medicine.
Stefan Hock is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University in the history department. His research interests center around the Ottoman Empire and Turkey in the twentieth century.
Tim Benbow is Reader in Strategic Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the UK Defence Academy. He is currently working on a study of the Royal Navy, the aircraft carrier question and British strategy in the 1950s and 1960s.
Devika Sethi was awarded a PhD degree in History by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, in 2013 for her thesis titled ‘Proscribing Ideas: Censorship in India, c. 1930–60’. After being awarded a Junior Research Fellowship (2005) she taught undergraduate students in the History Departments at St. Stephen’s College (2009–10), Lady Shri Ram College for Women (2014) and Gargi College (2014–15), all affiliated to Delhi University. Her field of specialization is Modern Indian History, specifically colonialism and decolonization. Her research areas are free speech and censorship. She currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India.
Mustafa Abbasi is a researcher in the Departments of History and Galilee Studies Tel-Hai College Israel. His research focuses on two main fields. The first field is the study of the social history of the Palestinian Arab population from the late Ottoman period to the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. Most of his research in this field has dealt with social changes in the Arab cities and towns in the Galilee. The second field is the history of the Second World War in Palestine in addition to 1948 Palestinian Israeli War.
