Joshua B. Freeman is a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a member of the ILWCH editorial board from 1997 to 2016. His latest book, Behemoth: Factories and the Making of the Modern World, will be published by W.W. Norton in February 2018.

Benedetta Rossi is a Reader in African History and Anthropology at the School of History and Cultures of the University of Birmingham (UK). Her work focuses on the history and anthropology of slavery in twentieth-century Africa, global labor history, environmental history, and the critical history of planned development. She is the author of From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She is the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool University Press, 2009, 2016) and coeditor with Anne Haour of Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Brill, 2010). Rossi is associate editor of a forthcoming Histoire Mondiale de l'Esclavage (Seuil) and is serving as reviews editor for the Journal of Global Slavery. She is currently writing her second monograph, Slavery and Emancipation in Twentieth Century Africa, contracted with Cambridge University Press (New Approaches to African History series).

Christine Whyte is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Kent and a research associate of the Centre for the History of Colonialisms. Previously she was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies in Germany. Her research focuses on slavery and abolition in West Africa, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Liberia and Sierra Leone. Her previous publications can be found in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, and National Identities.

Reuben Loffman researches the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). His work has appeared in the Journal of Religion in Africa, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, African Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies. Aside from his academic work, he has written on the current political impasse in the DRC for The Conversation. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the relationship between the Church and the colonial administration in the territory of Kongolo in the Tanganyika province (southeastern DRC) under Belgian Rule. His future projects explore the Benedictine missionaries who worked in Upper Katanga as well as the ways in which witchcraft dovetailed with state formation in southeastern Congo. He is also interested in Unilever's history in central Africa.

Annalisa Urbano holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a researcher at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

Alice Wiemers is an Assistant Professor of the History Department and a Core Member of Africana Studies at Davidson College. She specializes in twentieth-century West Africa with a particular interest in connections between economic life and social and political belonging. Her current research focuses on how Ghanaians have related to a variety of institutions and practices labeled “development” from the colonial period to the present, asking how the accumulated experience with development initiatives has shaped social and political life. She is revising a book manuscript that traces these issues through stories of labor, authority, and family in one northern Ghanaian town.

Elisabeth (Liz) McMahon is an Associate Professor of African history at Tulane University. Her first book published with Cambridge University Press, Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, uses Qadi and probate court records on Pemba Island to explore the gendered social dynamics of emancipation for all strata of society on the island. She has published articles in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Women's History Review, Journal of Women's History, Africa Today, Journal of Social History, and Quaker History, along with a number of chapters in edited volumes. She is currently working on a history of everyday violence among slaves on the nineteenth-century Swahili coast.

Zachary Kagan Guthrie is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, studying modern southern Africa, with a focus on Mozambique. He has authored articles in International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and African Economic History. His book manuscript, Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, is under contract with the University of Virginia Press. Guthrie earned his Ph.D. in 2014 from Princeton University. His current research project investigates the history of development and urbanization in the Mozambican city of Beira during the 1960s and 1970s, charting the intersections between imperial development in the Portuguese empire and postcolonial development elsewhere in Africa.

Steven Parfitt teaches at the Universities of Loughborough, Nottingham, and Derby in the UK. His research deals with British, American, and global social history, particularly with labor movements in those countries and around the world. His first book, Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, has been published with Liverpool University Press. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Labor, Labour History Review, and the International Review of Social History as well as in newspapers and magazines, including Jacobin and the Guardian.

Luca Falciola is a historian whose research focuses on social movements and political violence in the twentieth century. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University. Prior to joining NYU, Luca has been a Research Fellow in History at the Catholic University of Milan and Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. In 2011 he earned a joint Ph.D. in History from Sciences Po, Paris and the Catholic University of Milan. Falciola's publications include his book, Movement of 1977 in Italy (Carocci editore, 2015) as well as several articles about the Italian, the American, and the transnational radical left.