Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University. He is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963, revised edition 1999), An Atlas o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o won the Lotus Prize for Literature in 1973. He is the author of such celebrated novels as Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Wizard of

Bertrand Russell

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Kenneth Neill Cameron

Kenneth Neill Cameron (1908-94), Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, New York University (1963-75), was a literary scholar and editor.

Carlos Martinez

Carlos Martinez is an activist, writer and musician based in London. He runs the political history blog Invent the Future. His major interests are the history of 'actually existing socialism' and s

Jairus Banaji

Jairus Banaji’s main research interests have included: agrarian history; Late Antiquity and early Islam; historical materialism; Marx’s method in Capital; the fate of the peasantry unde

Antoinette Burton

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Suleiman Mourad

Suleiman Ali Mourad is Professor of Religion at the Smith College, Northampton, USA. He is the author of Early Islam between Myth and History, and is co-author of The Intensification and Reorientat

Robert Biel

Robert Biel, Ph.D. (1991) International Relations, London School of Economics, teaches political ecology at University College, London and has published extensively, including The New Imperialism (

Agnes Smedley

Agnes Smedley (1892-1950) was a journalist and the author of many books and articles.

Ailsa M. Watkinson

Ailsa M. Watkinson is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

JoAnn Jaffe

JoAnn Jaffe is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.