Daniel Orrells was educated at King's College, University of Cambridge. He is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick.

Gurminder K. Bhambra holds degrees from the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics. She is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, and has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College, US. She won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in sociology in 2008 for Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination.

Tessa Roynon teaches English and American literature at the University of Oxford. Her current research centres on the classical tradition in modern American fiction; additionally she is writing The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison. She studied English at Clare College, University of Cambridge, has an M.A. from Georgetown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and was awarded her PhD by the University of Warwick in 2007.

Daniel Orrells (University of Warwick), Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick), Tessa Roynon (University of Oxford), Maghan Keita (Villanova University), Patrice Rankine (Purdue University), Partha Mitter (University of Sussex), Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University), Kenneth Goings and Eugene O'Connor (Ohio State University), Robbie Shilliam (Victoria University of Wellington), Anna Hartnell (Birkbeck College, University of London), Toby Green (University of Birmingham), Stephen Howe (University of Bristol), Robert J. C. Young (New York University), V. Y. Mudimbe (Duke University), Tim Whitmarsh (University of Oxford), Paolo Asso (University of Michigan), John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University SUNY), J. Mira Seo (University of Michigan), John Gilmore (University of Warwick), Brian H. Murray (King's College, London), John Thieme (University of East Anglia), Astrid Van Weyenberg (University of Amsterdam), Edith Hall and Justine McConnell (Royal Holloway College, London), Emily Greenwood (Yale University), Tessa Roynon (University of Oxford), Martin Bernal (Cornell University).

"African Athena evokes with a breath-taking scope of vision the different ways in which Black Athena has acted as a foundational text for those interested in teasing out the dynamics of cultural engagements between Europe and Africa in both antiquity and modernity. African Athena is a triumph and will serve as the starting point for research in the field for many years to come."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review