Stephanie Anderson is a Canberra-based independent scholar of French voyage, anthropological, and other literature.

Chris Ballard is a Fellow in Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Bronwen Douglas is a Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Helen Gardner is a Lecturer in History in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne.

Vicki Luker is a Pacific historian and the Executive Editor of the Journal of Pacific History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Paul Turnbull is a Professor of History in the School of Arts at Griffith University, Brisbane.

Christine Weir is a Lecturer in History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.