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Surekha Davies

Dr Surekha Davies is a writer, monster consultant, and historian of science, art, and ideas. Her work on the history of information spans European textual and visual genres from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and particularly with sources and genres of information via which Europe made sense of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania: travel accounts, geographies, cosmographies, maps, prints, chronicles, ethnographies, and treatises on nature. Davies is the author of the award-winning Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her next book, Humans: A Monstrous History is under contract with the University of California Press as a lead trade-list title. For current information, check out her website, www.surekhadavies.org .
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Paul Dover

Professor of History at Kennesaw State University

Paul is currently attempting the impossible and embarking on a synthetic history of information from the advent of spoken language to Cloud computing, with the working title of Information: a Human History.  He is also writing the chapter on the early modern world for The Cambridge History of Intelligence.

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Alexander J Fisher

Professor of Music in the School of Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
Alex Fisher is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in music, sound, and religious culture in early modern Germany, he is the author of Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580-1630 (Ashgate, 2004), and Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria (Oxford, 2014). His work appears in various journals, including the Journal of Musicology, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Early Music History, the Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music, and Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming). His current research on soundscapes and confessional space in the Holy Roman Empire in the post-Reformation era is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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