Jake Subryan Richards is Lead Curator and Co-Editor of Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance and Assistant Professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching concerns the histories of the people of the African diaspora, Atlantic empires, and enslavement and emancipation. Jake has published research in Past and Present and Comparative Studies in Society and Histor y. His article on anti-slave-trade law won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize (2019) and his PhD thesis was co-winner of the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize and Seeley Medal (2021). Richards is a British Art Network Emerging Curator (2022) and a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker (2021). Victoria Avery is Co-Curator and Co-Editor of Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance. She has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010 prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick . Vicky has lectured and published widely on all aspects of the decorative arts and sculpture, most recently Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze (2018); and is leading a new digital research project, Representations of Black People in European Sculpture, 1450-1950.

Vicky has curated numerous interdisciplinary exhibitions, including Treasured Possessions (2015); Madonnas & Miracles (2017); and Feast & Fast (2019-2020), from which she is co-editing a multi-author volume, The pineapple from domestication to commodification: Re-presenting a global fruit , for the Proceedings of the British Academy (2024).