James R. Fichter (editor) - British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

is associate professor of history at the University of Hong Kong and author of the forthcoming book Shipping Between Empires: Marty et dAbbadie (18861918) .

is professor of contemporary history at the cole Normale Suprieure (Paris). She is the author of Voyages au Grand Ocan. Gographie du Pacifique et colonisation, 18151845 (2005) and Mirages de la Carte. Linvention de lAlgrie colonial (2014) among others.

is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Princeton University. His forthcoming dissertation is entitled States of Sacred Surveillance: Administration and Governance of Waqf and the Evolution of State Power and Capacity in Syria, 19201960.

is professor of history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick). Her publications include Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in Hausa Society in Niger (1997) and Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (2006). Her forthcoming book, Childbirth and Fertility in the Sahel: Countless Blessings , will be published in 2019.

is Newton International Fellow in the Department of History, University of Warwick. She is a historian of the British Empire, the Middle East, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her prize-winning first book, Genses du Moyen-Orient. Le Golfe Persique lge des imprialismes , was published in 2015.

is associate professor of European studies at the University of Hong Kong. His next book, Suez Passage to India: Britain, France, and the Great Game at Sea, 17981885, examines the Anglo-French relationship in Asia as mediated by the Suez Canal.

is professor of history at the University of Toronto (Victoria College). His books include Escape from Vichy (2018), Free French Africa in World War II (2015), Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology and French Colonial Spas (2006), and Vichy in the Tropics (2001).

is assistant professor of history at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has previously published on the American embrace of global English and interimperial language relations in Modern Intellectual History . Her book on freedom of information and US global power is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

has completed his doctoral degree from The Ohio State University. His dissertation is titled From Sea to Lake: Steamships, French Algeria, and the Mediterranean, 18301940. His article Colonial Transatlantiques: The French Line in Algeria, 18801940 was published in May 2018 in Essays in Economic and Business History.