Kyoko Nakano is a historian who specializes in Western culture. She graduated from Waseda University and has since pursued a career as a writer and lecturer.

Jill Lepore is a historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and chair of Harvard’s history and literature program. She
is also a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, particularly emphasizing the histories and technologies of evidence.

Eleanor Zelliot(1962-2016) was a significant historian, who is renowned for her extensive research and contribution to the study of the Dalit movement, the movement among Untouchables in India led by Dr. B.R. Ambedekar, and the Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. Her work has prominent contributions to South Asian studies and Dalit history.