Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. He is the author of Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History, and The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire.

Magdalena Naum is an Associate Professor of historical archaeology at Lund University. She is the co-editor of Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity and an editor of the journal, Settler Colonial Studies.