JEAN-PAUL BALDACCHINO is a professor of anthropology at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta. He is the coeditor, with Jon Mitchell, of Morality, Crisis and Capitalism: Anthropology for Troubled Times.
CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON is a professor of anthropology at Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey: Anthropocratic Republic and Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'État, and Memory in Turkey.
Michael Jackson is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia.
Banu Senay is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.