Filiz Meseci Giorgetti is Associate Professor of the History of Education at Istanbul University, Turkey. Her teaching and research interests include the history of Turkish education of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her historical research has focused on the roots of educational rituals, and the educational politics of the early Republican period in Turkey. Her latest book is the first book in Turkey about educational rituals: Egitim Ritüelleri (2016), and her current research project is writing the history of one of the important lycée of Istanbul.

Ali Arslan is Professor of History at Istanbul University, Turkey, where he was Chair of the Department of History from 2011 to 2014. His studies are in the field of education history, history and strategy. He formerly worked as an educational consultant for the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency.

Craig Campbell is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. His books cover subjects including the history of schooling in Australia and the South West Pacific, school markets, and secondary schooling. He is currently writing a biography of Australia's leading feminist educator, Jean Blackburn. He is a former executive member of the International Standing Conference of the History of Education and is currently President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society. He edits the online Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand.