Ilsen About is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Aix-Marseille University, France and Research Fellow at the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. His most recent publication, co-authored with Vincent Denis, is Histoire de l'identification des personnes (La Decouverte, 2010). He is currently writing a book on the Science of Police Identification in Europe between 1900 and 1930.
James Brown is Project Coordinator for Cultures of Knowledge, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Oxford, UK with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to this he was the Network Facilitator for the Identinet project, a Leverhulme funded project on the global history of identification.
Gayle Lonergan is a Research Felllow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of numerous articles on the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) and is currently working on a history of censuses and civil status in Bulgaria.
