KENNETH BROPHY is senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow, with twenty-five years of experience researching and excavating sites and monuments related to Scotland’s Neolithic period. He has published widely on aspects of British prehistory and archaeological theory. He blogs as the urban prehistorian and much of his current research activity relates to public engagement and community archaeology, usually based around prehistoric sites found in urban places.
EMILY C. BURNS is assistant professor of art history at Auburn University. Her research analyses US art in Paris and Franco-US artistic exchange in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her publications include Transnational Frontiers: the American West in France (Norman, Okla., 2018) and articles on American artists’ clubs in Paris, Cyrus Dallin’s sculptures of American Indians, representations of the transatlantic passage and constructions of artistic innocence in the careers of US sculptors in Paris.
COURTNEY J. CAMPBELL is a lecturer in Latin American history at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on how Brazilians defined their culture and their place in the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently revising her book on the Brazilian north-east entitled Region Out of Place: the Brazilian Northeast and the World (1924–1968). Her work has been published in Past and Present, Slavery and Abolition and the Luso-Brazilian Review, and has received awards from the Latin American Studies Association, the Southern Historical Association and Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies.
TRICIA CUSACK has taught at the Open University, Cardiff Metropolitan University and the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on how visual art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embodies ideas about national and cultural identities. Books include Riverscapes and National Identities (Syracuse, N.Y., 2019) and three edited volumes: Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space (Abingdon, 2016); Art and Identity at the Water’s Edge (Abingdon, 2016); and Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-Figures (Abingdon, 2018), co-edited with Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch. She has published articles in diverse journals including Art History; Nations and Nationalism; National Identities; New Formations; Irish Review; Journal of Tourism History; Nineteenth Century Studies; and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.
ALLEGRA GIOVINE is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of the economy in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial Burma and how it became known and experienced through both bureaucratic technologies and popular science. She serves as an editor of the History of Anthropology Newsletter and the H-SEAsia H-Net forum, and as production co-ordinator for The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) project at Mann Library, Cornell University.
KEVIN J. JAMES is professor of history at the University of Guelph, Canada and author of several books, including Histories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel (Bristol, 2018), as well as numerous articles and chapters that explore hotels and travel culture and places of commercial accommodation during wartime. His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by a visiting fellowship at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland Galway.
KRYSTALLIA KAMVASINOU is senior lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities of the University of Westminster, London. Her recent research on ‘Interim spaces and creative use’ was funded by the Leverhulme Trust (RF-2012-518). The research comprised a review of the historical and theoretical dimensions of the subject, as well as an empirical study focusing on London’s temporary land-use initiatives since 2008. She has published widely in academic journals and books on the topic, while the London study is documented on a website (<http://interimspacescreativeuse.wordpress.com>) and in a short film (<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pawuz4siovI>).
JENNIFER KEATING is assistant professor of modern East European history at University College Dublin. She is a historian of imperial Russia, working on the Russian empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research interests lie in using environmental history as a middle ground from which to explore the idea and practice of imperialism, focusing primarily on the geographical edges of the state at moments of imperial expansion and collapse. She is currently completing a book manuscript on environmental change and empire-building on Russia’s southern frontier in Central Asia, 1881–1916.
SARAH ANN MILNE is research associate at the Survey of London, part of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She initially trained in architecture, but, having graduated during the recent recession, she became a member of design collective ‘Make:Do’ and ran a short-term pop-up community space in North London. Sarah then acted as research assistant on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Interim spaces and creative use’ at the University of Westminster. Now her focus is on writing histories of London’s built environment, particularly seeking to broaden the range of people and buildings included in stories of long-term urban change.
LEONIE SCHUSTER is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian cultural history in its global context. Her research interests lie in the history of aviation, migrations and nation-building, as well as in the construction and representation of identities. She specializes in the use of images as historical sources. After studying in Berlin, Hamburg and Porto Alegre (Brazil), in 2011 she completed her Master of Arts in Latin American studies, modern history and Spanish linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2011 and 2015 she was a member of the DFG-funded research group ‘Agents of Cultural Globalization, 1890–1940’. In 2017 she earned her doctorate for work on aviation pioneers and Brazilian ideas of the nation and its place in the world in the department of history and cultural studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her first book was published recently: Brasilianische Höhenflüge. Luftfahrtpioniere und Imaginationen von Nation und Welt in Brasilien, 1900–1922 (Stuttgart, 2018).
MARTIN WALTER has previously worked as a research assistant in the English department at the Ruhr University Bochum. His Ph.D., entitled Auf der Suche nach England (Würzburg, 2018), focuses on the construction of national identity in British travel writing of the interwar period. He currently works as an English textbook editor at a German educational publishing house.