Alison Holland is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published two monographs: Just Relations. The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights (2015) and Breaking the Silence. Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State, 1905-1939 (2019). She is the editor of Rethinking the Racial Moment. Essays on the Colonial Encounter (2012). She is currently writing a history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and is on the editorial board of Black Histories: Dialogues.

Christopher J. Lee is an independent scholar who has published 12 books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of the journal Safundi.