Aaron L. Beek
is Extraordinary Researcher at North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa). He has previously held positions at Knox College, Massey University, Idaho State University, and the University of Memphis, and he received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Minnesota. His principal research focus is on banditry, piracy, and mercenaries in the ancient world, and he has also published on Mithridates, Josephus, and Cassius Dio as well as naval history and political philosophy.
Mark Briskey
is Associate Professor of Criminology at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. Mark holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). He has presented at several Universities and Conferences including the British South Asian Studies Association, the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the University of Western Australia, the Australian Defence Force Staff College, Oxford and University of Portsmouth. Mark previously enjoyed a career of over twenty years working for the Government of Australia including diplomatic postings to Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh and work in Iran, Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Nepal.
Paul J. Cook
is a military historian specializing in 20th century and United States military history. He holds a Master of Arts in military history from Norwich University and a Bachelor of Arts in history, with a concentration in public history and museum studies, from Gordon College.
Paul J. Cook
is a retired U.S. Army Colonel. He holds a doctorate in history from Temple University, a master’s degree in theater operations from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, and a master’s degree in military history from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His Army career included repeated tours in Korea, Germany, and Iraq. He is currently a contract author with the Army’s Center of Military History at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC.
James Crossland
is Reader in International History at Liverpool John Moores University. He specialises in the history of terrorism, propaganda and the laws of armed conflict. He is the author of The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Modern
Michael Cserkits
is an independent researcher. He graduated from the Austrian Theresian Military Academy and has finished the 22nd Austrian General Staff Course. He holds masters degrees in Sociology and Social and Cultural anthropology, and has a PhD in African Studies from the University of Vienna. He is currently working in the research fields of military anthropology, security issues relating to the Sahel zone and actively researches in the field of Visual and Media Studies.
Jaime A. González-Ocaña
is a researcher and teacher in the fields of Classics, Comparative Literature, and War Literature. Educated in Spain and France, he holds a PhD in Classics (Université Rennes 2, France). The focus of his research has been the Classic and Hellenistic Greek military texts, and he has published papers on Herodotus, Thucydides, Homer, and Machiavelli among other authors. Currently he is the Chair of the Classics and Modern Languages Departments at Brunswick School (USA), outside New York City.
Tatiana Konrad
is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago (2022), a Visiting Researcher at the Forest History Society (2019), an Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society (2018), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of South Alabama (2016). She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the editor of Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (West Virginia University Press, 2020), and a coeditor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2018).
Daniel Leach
is a historian specialising in the fields of minority nationalism, political violence, exile, collaboration, internment, and wartime Australia. He is the author of Fugitive Ireland: European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937–2008 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2009). He currently teaches history and politics for Swinburne Online, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
William V. Hudon
is Professor of History, emeritus, at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He completed a PhD in history at the University of Chicago in 1989. His previous publications have mainly focused on the religious history of early modern
Vineeth Mathoor
After a two-year teaching profile at Amity Law School, India’s prestigious Law University, Dr Mathoor joined the Research Department of History at NSS Hindu College, Kerala. Besides, he has been an assistant editor of South Asia Research, a peer-reviewed research journal by Sage Publications, and the regional editor of the Midlands Historical Review. He was a member of the Board of Studies of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, and the Advisory Committee of Adyopant Legal Service, New Delhi. He was part of the research projects of Prof. Werner Menski, the leading legal theorist at SOAS. Further, Mathoor is an active reviewer of books and has more than 75 book reviews to his credit. He regularly writes on Indian politics in popular and academic publications and recently published a book in Malayalam. Three of his forthcoming articles will be published by G.B Books, Routledge and Brill. His area of interest includes Indian nationalism, cultural nationalism, religious politics, secular-communal debate and south Indian modernity.
Elizabeth L. Miller
is the Project Director for September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a nonprofit 9/11 family member organization that promotes peace. Miller earned an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2020) at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her research has focused on the complexities of women’s involvement in terrorism, and examination of human rights abuses in a post-9/11 world. She appeared in dozens of broadcast interviews and panels, in the U.S. and abroad, around the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the 9/11 attacks. Elected in 2021, she currently serves on the city council of Port Jervis, NY.
Chris Millington
is Reader in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Fighting for France: Violence in Interwar French Politics (2018), A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front (2019), and France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance, Holocaust, Empire (2020). Millington is currently writing a history of terrorism in France during 1904–1940, thanks to generous funding from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
got his BA Degree in Classics from the University of Parma and his MD in Classical Philology from the University of Bologna. He defended his PhD thesis in Classics at the University of Roma Tre. He is secretary of the Italian Association for Classical Culture for the Parma delegation and Teaching assistant at the University of Parma. In the same city he works as a teacher of Latin and Greek at the Liceo “G.D. Romagnosi”. His research interests include Greek tragedy, Xenophon’s Socratic writings and Julian the Emperor’s satirical works, with a special attention to textual critique and historic and literary issues. Another field he researches is the indirect tradition of Greek classics in the Byzantine period.
João Nisa
is currently a PhD student in Medieval History (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra). His PhD project, under the supervision of João Gouveia Monteiro, aims to analyse the military organization of the province of Alentejo (Portugal) between the 14th and the early 15th centuries. He is a researcher of the Centre for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC) of the University of Coimbra and a member of the research team of the international project Frontowns - Think big on small frontier towns: Alto Alentejo and Alta Extremadura Leonesa (13th - 16th centuries).
Katty Cristina Lima Sá
graduated in History from the Federal University of Sergipe (2017) and received an MA in Comparative History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2020). She is a member of the Study Group of the Present Time (GET / UFS / CNPq). She has experience in the History of the Present Time, in research with digital sources and in the development of virtual educational environments.
Dmitri Shalpentokh
is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Indiana University South Bend.
Kalinga Tudor Silva
holds BA from the University of Peradeniya and PhD from Monash University, Australia. He served as the executive director of the Centre for Poverty Analysis from 2001 to 2002, and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies from 2007 to 2008. He is professor emeritus (Sociology) at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Currently he is the chief editor of the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences published by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. He is the author of “Decolonization, Development and Disease: A Social History of Malaria in
Gaius Stern
has a PhD in ancient history from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught classics, ancient history, and political science at San Francisco State, San Jose State, and the University of California at Berkeley until his retirement. His PhD thesis studied how Augustus transformed Rome from republic to monarchy with the help of some of the Senatorial elite, who received honors for their participation - a fact displayed prominently on the Ara Pacis as a work of state art that predicts and proclaims a New World Order and its founders. Dr. Stern has published on the Ara Pacis, prisoners of war in the ancient world, and Roman coinage. He is also the creator of the Ara Pacis Online Library, which makes available English translations and original versions of hard to find scholarship on the Ara Pacis from 1800 to 1959.
Timothy Smith
is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Regent’s Park College at the University of Oxford. He works on political systems, elections, and violence in the Roman world. He is currently working on a monograph on the Roman aedileship, a middle-ranking political office concerned primarily with Rome’s urban affairs. He also translates Italian poetry, and has published on Dante and literary translation.
Ölbei Tamás
holds a degree in History from the University of Pécs and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Lorraine (France) and the University of Debrecen (Hungary). He focuses on the military history of mercenary companies in the second half of the 14th century in Europe based on his research in various French, Italian, Spanish and German archives. He has participated in several medieval conferences in the USA and in various countries in Europe and has also published several articles and book chapters in Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, English and Dutch journals. He has edited books and has organised conferences in the field of late medieval warfare. He is member of the British Commission for Military History, and member of the “Momentum”, and the “Sources of Medieval Hungarian Military Organisation in Europe (1301–1437)“ research groups of the University of Debrecen and of the Laboratoire HiscAnt-MA
Silke Zoller
is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. She has a PhD from Temple University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and at the Clements Center for National Security. Her book To Deter and Punish: Global Collaboration against Terrorism in the 1970s appeared in 2021 with Columbia University Press.