Timothy Brook
Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia
Timothy Brook is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His writings situate China in the world and bring the perspective of the world to our understanding of China. Among his more popular books are The Confusions of Pleasure (University of California Press, 1998), Vermeer’s Hat (Bloomsbury, 2008), Mr. Selden’s Map of China (Profile, 2013), Great State: China and the World (Harper Collins, 2020) and The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Princeton University Press, 2023). Brook has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Warwick and Victoria, and has also taught at the University of Toronto, Stanford and Oxford. His current projects address Confucian statecraft in the Ming dynasty and the formation of knowledge in 17th-century England through the library of the legal scholar John Selden.
Ned Blackhawk
Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, Yale University
Ned Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History at Yale University where he researches and teaches about Native American and U.S. history. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he co-directs the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project. He is the author and/or co-editor of five works in Indigenous Studies. His recent book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale University Press, 2023), won several national awards, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction. A national bestseller, it has been translated into eight foreign languages and will soon appear in a young adult version with Seven Stories Press. His current work focuses on the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War and the place of Native nations in the unfolding Revolutionary War, portions of which were featured in last year in The Boston Globe and The Atlantic. He is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.
Emily Greenwood
James F. Rothenberg Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Emily Greenwood is James F. Rothenberg Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She trained in the UK, and received BA, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. Prior to Harvard she taught at the universities of St Andrews, Yale, and Princeton. Her areas of specialization are ancient Greek literature (especially historiography), classical reception studies, translation studies, and comparative literature. Her books include Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Bloomsbury, 2006) and Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010). Her next book The Recovery of Loss: Classics and the Erasure of American Experiences [Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World] is under contract with Princeton University Press and will be published in 2027. Greenwood is currently (Spring 2026) the Sather Professor at UC Berkeley.
Fergal Keane
Award-winning journalist and author, BBC
Fergal Keane is an award-winning BBC journalist and author. Among the awards he has received are the Emmy, BAFTA and the George Orwell Prize for political writing. He has also won the James Cameron Prize for war reporting and the Index Prize for Outstanding Commitment to Journalistic Integrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey (Viking, 1995), A Stranger’s Eye: A Foreign Correspondent’s View of Britain (Viking, 2000), Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love (William Collins, 2018), and most recently The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD (William Collins, 2023).
Barbara Weinstein
Silver Professor of History, New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her research focuses on postcolonial Latin America, and especially Brazil. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (Stanford University Press, 1983), For Social Peace in Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2015). She has received funding for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hays, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is a former editor of International Labor and Working-Class History and the Hispanic American Historical Review, and is currently writing an intellectual biography of the pioneering Latin Americanist and criminologist Frank Tannenbaum.
