Contributors
Alessandro antonello is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University and has held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oregon.
david armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, among them Civil wars: A history in ideas (2017), The history manifesto (co-auth., 2014), Pacific histories: Ocean, land, people (co-ed., 2014), Foundations of modern international thought (2013), The British Atlantic world, 15001800 (2nd edn, co-ed., 2009), The declaration of independence: A global history (2007) and The ideological origins of the British Empire (2000).
alison bashford is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. Author and editor of many books on world history, environmental history and the history of science, her most recent are The new worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus (2016) with Joyce E. Chaplin and Quarantine: Local and global histories (ed., 2016). She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a former Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. From 2013 to 2017, she was the vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
alexis dudden is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her books include Troubled apologies among Japan, Korea, and the United States (2008) and Japan's colonization of Korea (2005). Her work frequently appears also in The Huffington Post, Dissent and The New York Times. Dudden is the recipient of the 2015 Manhae Peace Prize. Her current project, The state of Japan: Islands, empire, nation, analyses Japan’s territorial disputes in light of the internationally changing meaning of islands.
Stella ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama Birmingham and an associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. Among her many publications are Reinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (2008), which was awarded the Prix Guizot of the Academie Fran^aise, and Conquering peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a transnational history of the Black Sea Region from the Russian expansion in the eighteenth century to the present day.
molly greene is Professor of History in the Department of History at Princeton University, with an appointment at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Her work centres on the history of the Greeks and the Greek world under Ottoman rule. Her most recent book, The Edinburgh history of the Greeks, 1454-1768: The Ottoman Empire (2015), is a general narrative of the Ottoman Empire, with a focus on the sultan’s Greek subjects.
Jonathan miran is Associate Professor of Islamic and African History at Western Washington University. He is interested in the social history of Muslim Northeast Africa and the history of the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean areas. He is the author of Red Sea citizens: Cosmopolitan society and cultural change in Massawa (2009). His most recent articles have appeared in Islamic Law and Society, The Journal of African History, History Compass and Slavery & Abolition.
michael north is Professor and Chair of Modern History at Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald. He has previously taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Kiel, Bielefeld and Rostock. He is the author of From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in commercial, monetary and agrarian history, 1500-1800 (2006), The Baltic: A history (Eng. trans., 2015) and Zwischen Hafen und Horizont: Weltgeschichte der Meere (2016).
sujit sivasundaram is Reader in World History at the University of Cambridge and works on both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
He is the author of Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the bounds of an Indian Ocean colony (2013) and Nature and the godly empire: Science and evangelical mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (2005). In 2012, he won a Philip Leverhulme Prize for History, awarded for outstanding contributions to research by early-career scholars in the UK. He is co-editor of The Historical Journal and Fellow and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. sverker sorlin is Professor of Environmental History in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where he is also a co-found- ing member of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. He has published extensively on the historical science and politics of climate change and on the history of the earth and field sciences, with an emphasis on the circumpolar Arctic. The future of nature: Documents of global change (2013) and The environment - a history (2018) are both outcomes from a longstanding collaboration on the history of environmental expertise with Libby Robin (ANU) and Paul Warde (University of Cambridge). A prize-winning non-fiction author in Sweden, his most recent book is on the history and politics of the Anthropocene (2017).eric tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, where he primarily teaches Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of The longest journey: Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca (2013) and Secret trades, porous borders: Smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 (2005) and most recently The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam (2016). He is the Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program at Cornell and editor of the journal INDONESIA.