Robert S. G. Fletcher is professor of history and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri. His books include British Imperialism and "The Tribal Question": Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936 (2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (2019).

Alec Zuercher Reichardt is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.