Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015 . She has worked extensively on the social and cultural histories of photography, especially in colonial environments, and on photography and history.    

She is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she was founding director of the Photographic History Research Centre. She has Honorary Professorships in the Department of Anthropology University College London, and University of Durham. From 2016-22 she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London. Until 2005 she was a curator at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at ISCA, University of Oxford, where she is now Research Affiliate. Her most recent books are The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination (2012), Photographs and the Practice of History: a short primer (2022), and the co-edited What Photographs Do: the making and remaking of museum cultures (2022).  

Elizabeth is one of the Arts and Humanities Editors of The Journal of the British Academy.

Hilary Graham is Professor of Health Science at the University of York and has a background in sociology and social policy. She has previously held positions at Lancaster University, University of Warwick and Coventry University.

She has a track-record of research concerned with social inequalities in health. Her current research is exploring the implications of climate change for people's health and everyday lives. 

Hilary Graham has led public health research programmes funded by NIHR/Department of Health and Social Care, and is currently Co-Investigator in the NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit (2024-29), led by LSHTM). From 2014 - 2023, she was part of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change where she coordinated the Countdown Working Group tracking public and political engagement in health and climate change. Her books include Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities (Open University Press, 2007) and Understanding Health Inequalities (Open University Press, 2010).

Hilary received a CBE for services to social science in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2014 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.

Hilary is one of the Social Sciences Editors for the Journal of the British Academy.

Andrew Hadfield is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the English Association, a trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association, and a past president of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

He has written numerous books on late medieval and Renaissance culture, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005); Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012); Lying in Early Modern English Culture from the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance (2017), and Literature and Class from the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is one of the general editors of the Works of Thoams Nashe, forthcoming from OUP.

He is one of the Humanities Editors for the Journal of the British Academy, and previously edited Renaissance Studies, Reformation and The Spenser Review.

Pablo Mukherjee is Professor of Anglophone World-Literature at Oxford University and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His research focusses on Victorian and contemporary imperialism and colonialism, postcolonial theory and literatures, popular literary cultures, environmental humanities and world-literatures.

He is the author of Crime Fiction and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and Contemporary Indian Novel in English (2010), Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Culture (2013), (with WReC) Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (2015) and Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India (2020: Winner of Science Fiction Research Association’s Book Award 2021). He has edited three collections of essays and anthologies, and written a wide range of articles in leading academic journals. He co-edits Palgrave Macmillan’s book series New Comparisons in World Literature. He is currently working on a project called Energy and Empire: Detectives, Spies, Ghosts and Aliens in the Victorian World.

Pablo is one of the Humanities Editors for the Journal of the British Academy.

Mike Savage is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of which he was co-founding Director in 2015. He was previously Professor at the University of Manchester (1995-2010) and York (2010-2012).
 
He has published extensively on historical and sociological drivers of inequality, including co-directing the BBC’s Great British Class Survey (2011-13) which led to a co-authored book, Social Class in the 21 st  Century. He is currently working on a collaborative co-authored book Colonial pasts and inequality today: the racial wealth divide in Britain and South Africa, to be published by LSE Press in 2026. He currently leads the International Inequalities Institute Research Programme, on ‘Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice’. 

Mike is the one of the Social Sciences Editors for the Journal of the British Academy.