Victor McFarland is an assistant professor in the Missouri University Department of History. His research interests center on energy, the environment, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, with a special focus on Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Danielle Giffort is a medical sociologist who studies the politics of health and social movements. She recently published the book, Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy (University of Minnesota, 2020).

  - Roger Moorhouse studied history at the University of London and is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw. He is the author of several books on World War II history, including Berlin at War (shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman...

James Carter is a writer and historian of modern China. He earned his PhD from Yale University under the direction of Jonathan Spence, and has taught since 1999 at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Harry Blutstein has worked as a freelance journalist since 1972 and his articles have appeared in major Australian newspapers. He is an adjunct professor at RMIT University and a fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Thomas DiBlasi is an associate professor at St. Joseph's College in New York, where he teaches and writes about the history of psychology.  Tom completed his PhD at Hofstra where he received general and specialized training in treating anxiety,

Dr. Anna Clayfield is an expert in history and languages and the current Programme Leader for BA Modern Languages & Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Chester. Her latest book is The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolu...

Dr. Ricky W. Law is a historian of interwar Germany, Japan, and transnational movements. His new book, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936, explores the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rap...

Dr. Ferenc Laczó is an expert on European history and the editor of the recent volume The Legacy of Division: East and West after 1989 (CEU Press 2019). He is currently assistant professor in history at the University of Maastricht where he teaches in ...

Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator. His latest book is The Russian Job: How America Saved the Soviet Union From Ruin ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019). Smith is the author of six books on Russia.