Nicholas Breyfogle (Editor) Nicholas B. Breyfogle is professor of history and Director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus (2005), which was awarded the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award, 2006; and editor or coeditor of Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (with Philip C. Brown, 2023); Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (2021); Nature at War: American Environments and World War II (2020); Readings in Water History (2020); Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018); and Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (2007). He is also the recipient of the Herbert Feis Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public History from the American Historical Association. Philip Brown (Editor) Philip C. Brown is professor emeritus of Japanese and East Asian history, The Ohio State University. He is the author of Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan (2011) and Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain (1993).

His coedited books include Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power and Control in East and Central Asian History (with Nicholas Breyfogle, 2023) and Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present (2015). He has received numerous awards sponsored by the Fulbright-Hays program, the Japan-US Friendship/NEH Fellowship program, and the National Science Foundation.