Emmanuella Amoh is an Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University. She holds a PhD from Purdue University. Her works have appeared in African Studies Review and Ghana Studies Journal.

David Bresnahan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. He holds a PhD from University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World (forthcoming with University of California Press).   

Chris Conte is an professor of African and environmental history at Utah State University. He is the author of Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains (Ohio UP, 2004). His recent work has appeared in History in Africa and Agricultural History.

Leslie Hadfield is a professor of African history at Brigham Young University. She holds a PhD from Michigan State University, and is the author of African Nurses Working in Rural South Africa, 1960s-1990s (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). 

Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué is an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. She is the author of Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019). Mougoué co-edits a book series on women and gender in Africa for the University of Wisconsin Press.  

Harmony O'Rourke holds a PhD in History from Harvard University and is Professor of History and Gender Feminist Studies at Pitzer College.  She is the author of Hadija’s Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields (Indiana University Press, 2017). 

Daren Ray is an assistant professor of African history at Brigham Young University. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa (Ohio University Press, 2024).