Deirdre Raftery is Full Professor (History of Education) at the School of Education, University College Dublin, Ireland. An elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a historian of education, with over a dozen book publications.  She has held a Fulbright (Boston College), and visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Toronto, the University of Notre Dame, and Durham University. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow, at the University of Cambridge.

Stephanie Spencer is Professor Emerita at the University of Winchester, UK. She has taught gender and education history for over twenty years and plays an active part in the Centre for the History of Women's Education at Winchester which she co-founded.