Empire Creators & Guests

Anita Anand is a British-Indian radio & television presenter, journalist, writer, and author of the book, The Patient Assassin.

William Dalrymple is a historian, writer, art historian, and curator, as well as a broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński and the Wolfson Prizes.

Owen Matthews is a writer, historian, Spectator Magazine Russia correspondent, ex-Newsweek Moscow and Istanbul bureau chief.

Camilla Townsend is an American historian and distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University.

Marie Favereau is an Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University.

Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter is a historian and political scientist.

Paul Cartledge is an ancient historian and academic.

Pankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist.

Daniel Immerwahr is an Associate Professor specializing in twentieth-century U.S. history within a global context.

David Wengrow is an archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the University College London.

Ali Ansari FRSE is the professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies.

Kathleen DuVal is the author of Native Nations.

Antony Beevor is a British military historian.

Murray Pittock is a Professor of Literature at the University of Glasgow and a Pro-Vice Principal.

Kavita Puri is a British journalist, radio broadcaster, writer, and author of the book, Partition Voices.

Steve Coll is a journalist, academic, and executive. Currently, he is the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Alex von Tunzelmann is a historian, screenwriter, and author.