Andrea Bubenik is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Queensland. Her books include The Persistence of Melancholia (2019), Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar (2016), Reframing Albrecht Dürer (2013). She curated the exhibitions Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond (2017) and Five Centuries of Melancholia (2014) at the UQ Art Museum. 

Lynne Cooke has held senior curatorial positions at institutions in New York, Madrid, and Washington DC for more than three decades. Recently her work has focused on the role of textiles in modernist and contemporary art. From 2023-2025 her seminal exhibition, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction toured to four North America venues. Cooke lives and works in New York. 

Nick Croggon is a writer, editor and teacher. He holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University and works at the University of Sydney coordinating public programs for the Power Institute, and teaching art history. He is an editor for Memo Review.  

Erica DiBenedetto is a curator at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a specialist in modern and contemporary art. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she wrote her dissertation on Sol LeWitt.

Imogen Dixon-Smith is a freelance curator and writer based on Gadigal country. She has held curatorial positions at a number of institutions across Australia including the Kenneth E Tyler Curator, International Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia where she curated Anni and Josef Albers (2024) and edited the accompanying publication.

Mark Ledbury is Power Professor of Art History and Director of the Power Institute. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century art and visual culture, on intersections of art and theatre and on questions of genre. As director of the Power Institute, he oversees a range of research programmes, talks and publications which focus on art and visual culture, with an emphasis on ways of seeing in the 21st century.

Aaron Nyerges is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In 2024 he was a Rolf Lessenich Fellow at the University of Bonn.

Ann Stephen is Senior Curator, Art at CCWM and is co-curator of Migrating Modernism. Her recent books include J.W. Power: An Australian avant-gardist, with ADS Donaldson (2025) and Ian Burn: Selected Writings 1966-1993 (2024). She edited Bauhaus Diaspora (2019) and Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 (2006) with Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara.

Rodney Taveira is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and Academic Director of the USSC at the University of Sydney. He researches the interrelations of visual culture and literature. He writes popular pieces on American society and culture, and appears regularly in Australian media.

Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University, and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA. Author and curator, he has published widely on modern architecture, including works on the Bauhaus and on Marcel Breuer.  He was the co-editor of Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (2018).

Melissa Miles is based in the Art History and Theory program at Monash University. Her research focuses on creative practices in periods of major societal change and geopolitical instability. Themes of colonisation, migration, citizenship, intercultural relations and contested public spaces recur in her book and journal publications. 

Paolo Stracchi is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning, and co-curator of Migrating Modernism. His research spans modern and contemporary construction history and theory, with a particular focus on the entanglement of expertise and responsibilities among architects, engineers, and builders.

Giorgio Marfella (PhD, University of Melbourne; M.Arch., University of Florence) is an Australian registered architect and Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He is an expert in tall building design and construction, the chair of the Architects Registration Board of Victoria and the past president and director of the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia.

Luciano Cardellicchio is Associate Professor of Architectural Construction and Director of Architecture at UNSW Sydney. His research examines construction history, building innovation, and the conservation of contemporary architecture, with a particular focus on the relationship between design, technology, and construction in complex building projects.

Gerard Reinmuth co-founded TERROIR in 1999, a practice that quickly became a critical participant in Australian architecture culture through writings, exhibitions, publications and built projects.  As the conversations that started the practice (around the re-examination of place in light of contemporary cultural and environmental questions) have become more acute, the body of work completed over that time has increased in relevance.  As Professor of Practice at the University of Technology, Sydney, Gerard examines practice in these contexts, informed both by research into past work and projections as to future forms of practice.  His work on Utzon and Can Lis forms part of this broader project.

Erik G. L’Heureux FAIA is an award-winning American architect, scholar, and educator based in Melbourne, Australia. He serves as Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at Monash University. Through his design practice, Equator Works (www.equator.work), he advances architecture for dense equatorial cities, focusing on decarbonization, climatic design, and planet-positive strategies for a rapidly warming world.

Philip Oldfield is Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. His research examines how the built environment can meet the needs of society through housing, buildings and infrastructure, while reducing environmental impacts, mitigating climate change, and supporting the transition to net zero.

Rebecca McLaughlan is an Associate Professor in Architecture; a recent Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow; and currently serves on the University of Sydney’s Academic Board. Rebecca’s research explores the ways that architecture embodies care by examining lived experiences and perceptions of care environments (for patients and staff), and the processes through which architects create architectures of care.