Vinita Damodaran is Director of the Centre for World Environmental History and Senior lecturer in the department of History at the University of Sussex, UK. Her expertise is on the indigenous communities and the environmental history of Eastern India. She has published numerous books and articles including co-editing Nature and the Orient; the Environmental history of South and South East Asia (1998) and The British Empire and the Natural World, Environmental encounters in South Asia (2011)
Anna Winterbottom is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, where she is working on a project on the history of medicine and healing in the Indian Ocean world. She has degrees from the universities of Oxford and London and previously worked at McGill University, where she remains an associate of the Indian Ocean World Centre. She has published several articles and book chapters on the East India Company and other subjects.
Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth Century South Africa and Britain (2001); co-editor of Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (2006) and co-author of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth Century British Empire (2014).
