Morgan Pitelka is the Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches late medieval and early modern Japanese history, focusing on material culture, urban history, and environmental history.

Meghen Jones is Professor of Art History at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her research centers on ceramics, modernity, and cultural production in Japan and globally.

Seung Yeon Sang is a lecturer at the Korea National University of Arts. Her research centers on the history of Japanese and Korean ceramics with particular focus on Japan-Korea relations.

Andrew L. Maske is Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research interests include cultural exchange and material culture in East Asia, historical production, distribution, and usage of ceramics, the culture of collecting, and museum interpretation and display.