Nicola Frith is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and author of The French Colonial Imagination: Writing the Indian 'Mutiny' from Second Empire to Third Republic (Lexington Books, 2014).
Kate Hodgson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in French at the University of Liverpool.

Christine Chivallon is an anthropologist and a geographer, and is the Research Director of the CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research) in France. Her last book is L'esclavage, du souvenir à la mémoire. Contribution à une anthropologie de la Caraïbe (2012).
Catherine Reinhardt teaches at Chapman University and is currently working on a chapter entitled 'Remembering and Imagining Slavery: Postcolonial Identities and the Memorial Landscape in the Eastern Caribbean', in Anna Scacchi's and Elisa Bordin's Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future (forthcoming in Cambria Press).
Nicola Frith is a Chancellor's Fellow and AHRC Leadership Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and is working on a project entitled 'Mapping Memories of Slavery: Commemoration, Community and Identity in Contemporary France', which is funded by the AHRC. She is the author of a monograph entitled The French Colonial Imagination: Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic (2014).
Renaud Hourcade is a postdoctoral researcher with the CURAPP-CNRS, Amiens. He recently published a book on memorialization processes in the former slave trade ports, entitled Les ports négriers face à leur histoire. Politiques de la mémoire à Nantes, Bordeaux et Liverpool (2014).
Kate Hodgson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and is working on a project entitled 'Haiti and the International Politics of Anti-Slavery', which is funded by the British Academy. Her latest publication is 'Dedicated to the Sound Politicians of all the Trading Nations of Europe' in Lovejoy and Schwarzs' Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone (2014).
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Theme Leadership Fellow for 'Translating Cultures'.
Srilata Ravi is Professor of French at the University of Alberta and the author of Rethinking Global Mauritius: Critical Essays on Mauritian Literatures and Cultures (2013).
Sotonye Omuku completed her PhD at UCL in 2013 on a project looking at 'Representations of slavery and the slave trade in Francophone West African literature'.
Inès Mrad Dali is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Sousse in Tunisia. Her latest publication a review of Terence Walz et Kenneth M. Cuno's Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean in Naqd, Ecritures historiennes du Maghreb et du Machreq (2014).
Claire Griffiths is Professor of Francophone Studies and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Chester. Her most recent publications include Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa (2013) and Globalizing the Postcolony: Gender and Development in Francophone Africa (2011).
Françoise Vergès holds the Chair 'Global South(s)' at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. Her most recent publication is 'The Sound Like A Rumour' in Kader Attia's Transformations (2014).