Wasana Wongsurawat is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at Chulalongkorn University. She is the editor of Sites of Modernity: Asian Cities in the Transitory Moments of Trade, Colonialism and Nationalism and coeditor of Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture.
Vincente L. Rafael is the Giovanni and Anne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation (Duke University Press, 2016), The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press, 2005), and several other books.
Laurie J. Sears is the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington. She is the author of several books, including Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive(U. of Hawai'i Press, 2013) and Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales (Duke University Press, 1996).
Charles Keyes is emeritus professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington and author of Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State and many other titles.