Carol Acton
Carol Acton is Associate Professor of English at St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on war, gender, and life-writing. She is currently examining letter exchanges in the two world wars.
Julie Anderson
Julie Anderson is a Reader in History at the University of Kent. She has written a number of articles on the history of medicine, disability and war, including a monograph War, Disability and Rehabilitation: Soul of a Nation (Manchester University Press, 2011).
Leo van Bergen
Leo van Bergen is a medical historian writing mainly on colonial medicine and war and medicine. Among his several books on these subjects is a medical history of World War One: Before my Helpless Sight. Suffering Dying and military medicine on the Western Front (Ashgate 2009).
Ana Carden-Coyne
Professor Ana Carden-Coyne is a historian, curator, and Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War (CCHW) at the University of Manchester. Her publications include The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2014); Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism and the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2009). Current projects include publications on the history of art therapy and creativity in occupational therapy.
Cédric Cotter
Cédric Cotter is a law and policy researcher at the ICRC law and policy forum. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Geneva.
Dominiek Dendooven
Dominiek Dendooven is a researcher and curator at In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Belgium). His main research theme are the non-European presence on the Western front in the First World War, and the post-war reconstruction.
Christine Van Everbroeck
Christine Van Everbroeck, PhD in History, is Education Officer at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (Brussels). With Prof. Pieter
Daniel Flecknoe
Daniel Flecknoe is a public health consultant and registered nurse with a background in humanitarian aid work. He chairs the UK Global Violence Prevention working group, which applies an academic and policy focus to public health impacts of armed conflict.
Christine E. Hallett
Christine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She specialises in the history of nursing practice, with particular reference to the work undertaken by nurses during the First World War. She also is President of the European Association for the History of Nursing and Chair of the UK Association for the History of Nursing, and holds Fellowships of both the Royal Society of Medicine, UK, and the Royal Society for the Arts, UK.
Hans-Georg Hofer
Hans-Georg Hofer is Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published mainly on issues of psychiatry and internal medicine in the twentieth century and co-edited more recently Psychiatrie im Ersten Weltkrieg (2018).
Edgar Jones
Edgar Jones is professor of the history of medicine and psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. He originally studied history but subsequently trained in clinical psychopathology at Guy’s Hospital. He has written on shell shock, post-traumatic stress disorder and the cultural representation of psychiatric casualties.
Wim Klinkert
Wim Klinkert holds the chair for modern military history at the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda and is professor of military history at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in History at the University of Leiden (1992). His most recent book in English is Defending Neutrality. The Netherlands prepares for war, 1900–1925 (Brill, 2013).
Harold Kudler
Dr. Kudler trained in Psychiatry at Yale. He has co-chaired the United States Under Secretary for Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Special Committee on PTSD and
Alexander McFarlane
Alexander McFarlane is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the University of Adelaide Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is an international expert in the field of the impact of disasters, military and veterans’ mental health and PTSD. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including Lifetime Achievement Award of the ISTSS for outstanding and fundamental contributions to the field of traumatic stress studies. He has published over 400 articles and chapters and has co-edited three books.
Johan Meire
Johan Meire is a social anthropologist. A reworked version of his Ph.D. dissertation on the social memory of the First World War in the Ypres Salient (University of Leuven, Belgium) was published as De Stilte van de Salient [The silence of the salient] (Lannoo, 2003).
Heather R. Perry
Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and specializes in the social, cultural, and medical histories of War and Society in the twentieth century World Wars. She is the author of Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany (Manchester, 2014) and co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection, Food, Culture, and Identity in Germany’s Century of War (Palgrave). She currently serves as Editor of the journal, First World War Studies and is working on a project tentatively titled, Feeding War: Nutrition, Health, and National Belonging in Germany’s Long Great War – an examination of how WWI transformed German ideas about food, nutrition, and national identity.
Jane Potter
Jane Potter is Reader in Arts at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing, Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published widely on the literature of the First World War, with a particular emphasis on poetry, popular fiction, and medical memoirs.
Fiona Reid
Fiona Reid is Associate Dean at Newman University, Birmingham. She has published widely on medical history and war, and is the author of Broken Men. Shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain 1914–30 (2010) and Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, medics pacifists (2017).
Jeffrey S. Reznick is Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for War Studies of the University of Birmingham. He is author of John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War (2009) and Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War (2005), both of which appear in the Cultural History of Modern War series of Manchester University Press, as well as numerous articles which explore medical, material, and memorial cultures of 1914–1918.
Stephen Snelders
Stephen Snelders, research fellow at Utrecht University (History and Philosophy of the Sciences). Publications on the history of drugs, piracy, and (colonial) medicine. Now completing a study of illegal drug smuggling and the Netherlands in the 20th century.
Hanneke Takken
Hanneke Takken is researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). For her PhD (Utrecht University), she studied the British, German and French army chaplains during the First World War (Churches, Chaplains and the Great War, Routledge 2019).
Pieter Trogh
Pieter Trogh is a researcher of the In Flanders Fields Museum at Ypres. He wrote several books and articles on different aspects of the First World War in Belgium. Since 2011 he has been co-ordinating the Museums ambitious Names List project.
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten is a military psychiatrist and professor of psychotrauma. He is pioneering in the field of medical psychotraumatology: the role of stress, trauma, complex PTSD and neuroscience. He is interested in historical basis of psychotrauma research as a foundation for current approaches to treatment. He has published over 200 papers, over 30 book chapters and edited several books on this topic.