Anyaa Anim-Addo is a Lecturer in Caribbean History at the University of Leeds. She has research interests in the maritime world, the politics of mobility, and race and gender in the post-emancipation Caribbean. She has published research in Historical Geography, Island Studies and Mobilities.

William Hasty is an independent researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published research in The Journal of Historical Geography, Cultural Geographies and Mobilities which addresses questions of politics, knowledge production and politics in relation to piracy in the early-eighteenth century.

Kimberley Peters is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University. Her research focuses on mobility and governance in the context of the sea. She has published work in a number of journals and is the co-editor of the volume 'Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean' (Ashgate: Farnham).