Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, New York City, United States. 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, Sweden. She is the co- editor of Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity and an editor of the journal, Settler Colonial Studies.