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REINALDO FUNES-MONZOTE is professor of history at the University of Havana and director of the geo-historical research program at the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation (Cuba). His books include From Rainforest to Cane Field.: A Cuban Environmental History since 1492 (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), winner of Elinor Melville Prize, and Nuestro viaje a la luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría, which received the 2019 Casa de las Americas Award. He researches and teaches on Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American environmental history, and the history of science and technology in Cuba. He is currently a visiting professor at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, MacMillan Center at Yale.

SUSAN NANCE is professor of history and affiliated faculty with the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her latest book, Rodeo: An Animal History, has just been published by University of Oklahoma Press.

GABRIEL N. ROSENBERG is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies and history at Duke University. He is the author of The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and is writing a history of the relationship between race science and livestock breeding. He was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and an early career fellow at the Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2020-2021, he will be the Duke endowment fellow at the National Humanities Center.

JOSHUA SPECHT is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in animals, land, and capitalism. His first book is Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2019).

SANDRA SWART is professor of history at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in modern history and MSc in environmental change and management from Oxford University. She researches the social and environmental history of southern Africa, focusing on the relationship between humans and animals. She is an editor of the South African Historical Journal and has supervised doctoral students from Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. She is the author of Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa (Witwatersrand University Press, 2010).