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Duncan Kelly is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He is a long-standing co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, and the author of Politics and the Anthropocene (Polity, 2019), alongside Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics (Oxford, 2025).
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Alison Bashford FBA is Scientia Professor of History at University of New South Wales, Sydney and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She has written many books on population and eugenics, including Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (Columbia, 2014). She is co-editor of New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World (Chicago, 2023) and Gondwanaland: The Modern History of an Ancient Supercontinent (Pittsburgh, 2026).
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David Nally is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. His research interests include famines, colonial policy, agrarian politics, and American philanthropy. He has published a book on the Irish Famine, Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine (Notre Dame University) and co-authored a textbook, Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage). A volume on the global significance of tuber plants, edited with Olivia Angé, will appear in Yale's Agrarian Studies Series in 2026.
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