Crimes without criminals

Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at University of Oxford, Curator of World Archaeology at Pitt Rivers Museum and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has published widely on material and visual culture from the recent past and the near present. His most recent books are The Brutish Museums, Lande: the Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond, Archaeology and Photography and Isle of Rust. His next book, Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting, will be published in May 2025.

Dr Leona Vaughn is a Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow at University of Liverpool, developing anticolonial approaches to studies of slavery and unfree labour - centred on addressing harms and promoting justice and repair in how we do work on slavery and its legacies within and outside of academia. She is co-founder of Barriers to Black Academia, an initiative which places reparative justice central to addressing under-representation of Black staff in Higher Education. She also leads the current knowledge partnership between University of Liverpool and Church of England Racial Justice Unit on slavery, truth-telling, healing and repair.

Angela Haynes has taught in SOAS Department of Development Studies since 2018. She currently teaches on the online Humanitarian MSc programme and is a Senior Teaching Fellow on Migration, as well as a coordinator of SOAS's Ebony Initiative Writing and Presentation Space for Black scholars. She teaches Afropean: African Diaspora Studies in Europe and Black London courses for Syracuse University's London programme.