The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

is assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (2024).

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.