Notes on Contributors

George H.O. Abungu is a former Associate Professor of Heritage Studies at the University of Mauritius. He is the founder of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, Nairobi, and from 1999 to 2002 was Director‐General of the National Museums of Kenya. He has served as Vice‐President and Executive Committee member of the International Council of Museums. In 2012, George was made a Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Vanessa Agnew researches and teaches on the cultural history of music, travel, reenactment, the history of science, genocide, and exile and refugee studies in the Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg‐Essen, Germany. Her Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Oxford UP, 2008) won the Oscar Kenshur Prize for Eighteenth‐Century Studies and the American Musicological Society’s Lewis Lockwood Award. She co‐edited Settler and Creole Reenactment (with Jonathan Lamb, Palgrave, 2010), special issues of Rethinking History 11 (2007) and Criticism 46 (2004), and book series Historical Reenactment (Palgrave) and Music in Society and Culture (Boydell and Brewer). She is working on a book project, Right to Arrive, which applies reenactment theory to Kant’s rights of the stranger in order to reframe discussions around hospitality, the mediating role of culture, and the current refugee crisis.

Ana Lucia Araujo is a cultural historian and a Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. Her work explores the history and the memory of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery and their social and cultural legacies. She is particularly interested in the public memory, heritage, and visual culture of slavery. Over the last years, she authored the books Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth‐Century Artist in the Tropics (2015), Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage and Slavery (2014), Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (2010), and Romantisme tropical: l'aventure illustrée d'un peintre français au Brésil (2008). She also edited a number of books: African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World (2015), Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space (2012), Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities (2011), and Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery (2009). Her newest book is titled Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (2017).

Michael Belgrave is a historian and foundation member of Massey University’s Albany campus in Auckland, New Zealand. He was previously research manager of the Waitangi Tribunal and has continued to maintain a strong interest in Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal’s district inquiries. More recently, he has been heavily involved in negotiating the historical aspects of treaty settlements with a number of iwi (Māori tribes). He has published widely on treaty and Māori history, including being lead editor of Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press). His Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories explores the way that generation after generation Māori claims have been articulated in the courts and in settlements relying on historical narratives which have changed significantly to reflect different times. His most recent book, Dancing with the King (Auckland University Press), a history of peace‐making following the Waikato War of 1863–1864 won the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize. He has been an advisor to a number of government departments as well as to numerous iwi.

Hamad M. Bin Seray is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arabic Emirates University. He took his undergraduate degree in history at UAEU and his MA and PhD at the University of Manchester. He is the author of more than seventy‐six publications including over twenty articles in refereed journals and eighteen books. These include Aramaic in the Gulf, The Arabian Gulf in Syriac Sources, Non‐Arabic Races in Pre‐Islamic Makkah and their Religious, Commercial and Social Roles, and Civil Relations between the Arabian Gulf Region and the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia from the 3rd Century BC to the 7th Century AD.

Helin Burkay is a Post‐Doctoral Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München in Munich, Germany. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Carleton University and a BA in Political Science from Bogazici University. Her research is on the cultural politics of development, land, and food in the Middle East. She is currently working on two projects, one on the ethnic culinary heritage and politics of memory in Turkey and the other on the ethics of environmental research.

Thomas Cauvin is Assistant Professor of History at Colorado State University in the United States and teaches Public History, Museum Studies, and Digital History. Born in France, Cauvin received his PhD (open‐access online) at the European University Institute in Italy, where he focused on the comparative study of museums and memories in Ireland and Northern Ireland (2012). President of the International Federation for Public History, his research focuses on public history, museums, memories, and the public uses of the past. He has published the first single‐authored textbook on Public History in North America and several articles – in English, French, Italian, and Spanish – on the rise and internationalization of public history. As a public historian, he has worked with local communities for the creation of traveling exhibits, online crowdsourcing projects, and historic preservation of French heritage in Louisiana.

Chia‐Li Chen is Professor and Head of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at the Taipei National University of the Arts. She received her PhD in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Museums and Cultural Identities (VDM Verlag) and From Margin to Representation (National Taiwan University Press) and has published several English papers in journals and books such as Re‐presenting Disability, Displaced Heritage and Museum Revolutions. Her research interests focus on three main areas: museums and contemporary social issues, especially the engagement and representation of the disabled and minority groups; museum, traumatic memories and human rights education; and the application of music in literature museums.

Indira Chowdhury is Founder‐Director of the Centre for Public History at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bengaluru, India. Formerly professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, she is also the founder of Archival Resources for Contemporary History (ARCH), Bengaluru, now known as ARCH@Srishti. She has a PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and her book The Frail Hero and Virile History won the Tagore prize in 2001. In 2010, she published A Masterful Spirit: Homi Bhabha 1909–1966. She was awarded the New India Fellowship to work on her book that has been recently published and titled Growing the Tree of Science: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (OUP: 2016). She was President of the Oral History Association of India (2013–2016) and President of the International Oral History Association (2014–2016).

Catherine Clinton holds the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas–San Antonio and Professor Emerita at Queen’s University Belfast. Her first book, The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South, appeared in 1982, and her Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom was named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004 by the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune. Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War, the published version of her Fleming Lectures delivered in 2012, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2016. She has also published award‐winning books for children, including I, Too, Sing America and Hold the Flag High. In 2016, she served as president of the Southern Historical Association. She serves on scholarly advisory councils for Civil War History, Ford’s Theatre, and Civil War Times, and is a member of the Screen Writer’s Guild. She was an advisor for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), following publication of Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (2009). In 2015, Clinton participated in a round table at the Smithsonian Institution with US treasurer Rosie Rios and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, to discuss the prospect of honoring a woman on US currency; in April 2016, the US Treasury announced Harriet Tubman would appear on the front of the newly redesigned $20 bill.

Rebecca Conard is Professor of History Emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University and former Director of the MTSU Public History Program. She holds a PhD from the University of California–Santa Barbara and an MA from U.C.L.A. Her research into the...