Richard Blurton trained as an archaeologist and subsequently worked in North Africa (Carthage), southern Afghanistan (Kandahar) and in southern India (Vijayanagara) where he worked with Dr George Michell. He joined the Department of Asia in the British Museum in 1986, retiring in September 2018 as Head of the South and Southeast Asia Section. Read More
Marci Shore is an associate professor of history at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. . Read More
Wendy Doniger is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling works, among them, The Hindus: An Alternative History; Hindu Myths; The Ring of Truth; Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities; On Hinduism; Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts; Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares. She is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has also taught at the SOAS, University of London, and UC Berkeley. Read More
