Alice L. Conklin is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. She is the author of A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 , coauthor of France and Its Empire since 1870 , and coeditor of European Imperialism: 1830-1930: Climax and Contradictions.
Sarah Fishman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston.
Jonathan Z. Cannon is Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Viriginia School of Law.Robert Zaretsky is Professor of French History at the University of Houston.