Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, and the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Erez Manela is Professor of History, Harvard University. Daniel Sargent is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Jeremy Adelman is Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture, Princeton University. Thomas Borstelmann is Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History, University of Nebraska. Matthew Connelly is Professor of History, Columbia University. Francis J. Gavin is Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Louis Hyman is Associate at McKinsey & Company. Ayesha Jalal is Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University. Stephen Kotkin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin. J. R. McNeill is University Professor, Department of History and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Michael Cotey Morgan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Yale University. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is Assistant Professor of History, University of Kentucky. author>Jocelyn Olcott is Associate Professor of History, Duke University. Vernie Oliveiro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Harvard University. Andrew Preston is University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University. Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis. Rebecca J. Sheehan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History, University of Sydney. Jeremi Suri is E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science.