Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, at McGill University, Canada. He has published widely on Indian Ocean world themes, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012). He is currently completing a manuscript on Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to 1900.

• 1. Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange to circa 1300 Gwyn Campbell.- 2. Origins of Southeast Asian Shipping and Maritime Communication across the Indian Ocean Waruno Mahdi.- 3. Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships Pierre-Yves Manguin.- 4. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard Alexander Adelaar.- 5. Early Greek and Latin Sources on the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa Ephraim Lytle.- 6. A GIS Approach to Finding the Metropolis of Rhapta Carl Hughes and Ruben Post.- 7. Contact between East Africa and India in the first Millennium CE Sunil Gupta.- 8. Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the First Millennium CE: The Glass Bead Evidence Marilee Wood.- 9. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: The Archaeological Perspective Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane, Chantal Radimilahy, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Paul Sinclair, and Malika Virah-Sawmy.- 10. A genomic investigation of the Malagasy confirms the Highland/Coastal divide, and the lack of Middle Eastern gene flow Jason A. Hodgson.- 11. Intercontinental networks between Africa and Asia across the Indian Ocean: what do village chickens reveal? J.M. Mwacharo.- 12. East Africa in the Early Indian Ocean World Slave Trade: The Zanj Revolt Reconsidered Gwyn Campbell.