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Christian Emery, UCL

Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University; California State University San Marcos

Felix Wiebrecht, University of Liverpool

Simon Avenell, Australian National University

Emily Blackwell, University of Bristol

Sara Harmouch, George Washington University

Jane Adkins, Dublin City University

Craig Jeffrey, Monash University

Sven Batke, Edge Hill University

Xing Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology; Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Joseph Montoya, Georgia Institute of Technology

Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University; Alex de Waal, Tufts University; Luka Kuol, University of Juba; Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University, and Peter Hailey, Tufts University

Sanjoy Paul, University of Technology Sydney

Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University

Peter P. Marra, Georgetown University and Nathan W. Cooper, Smithsonian Institution

Hanne O. Mogensen, University of Copenhagen and Julaina A. Obika, Gulu University

Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

Jan Nyssen, Ghent University; Alemtsehay Tsegay, Mekelle University; Emnet Negash, Ghent University; Oregon State University; Federica Sulas, University of Gothenburg; Mariano Ucchesu, Université de Montpellier; Tesfaalem Gebreyohannes, Mekelle University, and Yemane Hailu Fissuh

Joseph Crawford, University of Tasmania and Michael Cowling, RMIT University

Samantha Lawler, University of Regina and Aaron Boley, University of British Columbia

Pragya Agarwal, Loughborough University

Paolo Pozzilli, Queen Mary University of London

Jamie Thompson, University of Reading

Evelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham

Sahar Bakr, Nottingham Trent University

Robert Munn, University of Otago

Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology

Nic Rawlence, University of Otago

Sathana Dushyanthen, The University of Melbourne

David Hone, Queen Mary University of London

Jacques Hymans, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California

Marta Khomyn, Adelaide University

Luke Hartigan, University of Sydney