David Geary is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He is the coeditor of Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site: Bodh Gaya Jataka.
Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013).
Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is the author of Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar (University of California Press, 1998); translator and editor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford University Press); and coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (University of Hawai'i Press, 2005).