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Gillian Arrighi is an independent scholar who was until recently Associate Professor and Head of Creative and Performing Arts in the School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on popular entertainments, child actors, and acting theory.Kim Baston was until recently Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Melbourne and is a member of the curriculum advisory group of the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA). Her research interests include popular entertainments in the eighteenth century, circus history and culture, and the intersection of music and theatre.Aastha Gandhi is an Assistant Professor teaching graduate program in Performance Studies at B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her area of research engages with the circus, migration, networks, and discourses of the performing body. A degree in law and proficiency in dance adds to her multi-faceted and inter-disciplinary approach to research. Her forthcoming book, A Critical History of the Indian Circus: Performance, Networks, and Migration (Palgrave Macmillan) frames the evolution of Indian circus history and practice through mobility, migration, and actor-networks.Kate Holmes is an honorary fellow at the University of Exeter. She has recently finished working as a postdoctoral researcher on the major collaborative UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded ‘Theatre and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century’ project. As part of this project, she researched popular entertainments as an integrated element of visual culture and managed impact activities such as exhibitions. Kate’s research has also considered how world events influenced circus performer’s careers and explored how audience experience was guided by differences in early twentieth century North American and British circus spaces.Betsy Golden Kellem is a scholar of the unusual. She is the author of Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth Century Circus (Feminist Press, 2025). Her writing on circus and entertainment history has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Public Domain Review, Atavist Magazine, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, and Slate. Betsy is a two-time regional Emmy winner and has served on the boards of the Barnum Museum and the Circus Historical Society.Jenny Leigh Du Puis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Fashion at Columbia College Chicago. In her scholarly career as a PhD candidate with Cornell University, she explores the past, present, and future of circus costume through presentations, publications, and the curation of digital and physical clothing exhibitions. Her professional career in circus costume includes working with such companies and organizations as Cirque Us, Circus Smirkus, Circus Couture, Circus Culture, Circus Juventas, Sunset Circus, and Cirque du Soleil's KÀ. Matthew McMahan is assistant professor of comedic studies at Emerson College, where he teaches the history and theory of comedy. He is the author of Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 (Palgrave Macmillan), and numerous articles and reviews on vaudeville, clowning, farce, and French theatre.Jennifer Lemmer Posey is Tibbals Curator of Circus at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, a campus of Florida State University. She has been working with circus collections and the diverse circus community for twenty years. With research interests focused on the relationship of the circus arts, mass media, identity, and popular culture.Mark St Leon is a freelance lecturer in accounting, economics and management, now retired. Descended from one of Australia’s earliest circus families, he pioneered the study of Australia’s circus and travelling show people.Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor Emeritus of Drama and Oratory, Tufts University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For many years he served as an adjudicator of the International Mime & Movement Festival in Philadelphia. He has published many books and articles on popular entertainment.