Michelle Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Center at Uppsala University, Sweden, and currently heads the project, "The 'Civilised' Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars". She earned her MA and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the HVC in genocide studies. Gordon`s research interests include European colonial violence, and the role of European perpetrators in extreme violence.

Rachel O`Sullivan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She completed her MA at University College Dublin and her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. She has previously held fellowships with the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Center for Holocaust Studies and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Her research interests include genocide, colonialism, society and culture, and the Holocaust.