Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana Author

María Inés Tato holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council –Argentina (CONICET) at the Institute of Argentine and American History "Dr Emilio Ravignani", UBA/CONICET. Founder and coordinator of the Group of Historical War Studies (GEHiGue) at that Institute. She is Professor at UBA and the Master in War History –Superior War College –Army Faculty –National Defense University (UNDEF). Her current research area is the social and cultural impact of the First World War in Argentina and of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Author of La trinchera austral. La sociedad argentina ante la Primera Guerra Mundial (2017) and co-editor of Las grandes guerras del siglo XX y la comunidad española de Buenos Aires (2015), La Gran Guerra en América Latina. Una historia conectada (2018), Guerras del siglo XX. Experiencias y representaciones en perspectiva global (2019), La cuestión Malvinas en la Argentina del siglo XX. Una historia social y cultural (2020) and The Global First World War. African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators (2021).

Peter Stanley is Professor at UNSW Canberra. He is one of Australia’s most active military-social historians, the author of 40 books, scholarly and popular. Born in Britain, he migrated to Australia with his family in 1966. He worked from 1980 to 2007 as a historian at the Australian War Memorial, Australia’s national military museum. Becoming its Principal Historian, he published widely in Australian military history (including books such as Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy; 1997, Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli; 2005 and Men of Mont St Quentin; 2009), also writing on medical history (For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790-1850; 2003) and environmental history (Black Saturday at Steels Creek; 2013). In 2011 he jointly won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History for his book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force. In 2013 he joined the School of Humanities and Social Science at UNSW Canberra as a Research Professor. His 1993 Australian National University PhD was published in 1998 as White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India 1825-1875, and in recent years he has concentrated on the military social history of British India. His recent books include Die in Battle, Do not Despair: the Indians on Gallipoli, 1915 (2015), ‘Terriers’ in India: British Territorials 1914-19 (2019) and Hul! Hul!: the Santal Rebellion, 1855 (forthcoming).

Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana holds a Master in War History from the Superior War College –Army Faculty –National Defense University (UNDEF). He is currently a PhD in History candidate at the Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT). He is a former officer of the Argentine Army, with the rank of retired Colonel, Veteran of the Falklands/Malvinas War, and ex-Dean of the Army Faculty. He is Director of the Master in War History at the Superior War College and Professor at this institution. His line of research focuses on the impact of the First World War on the Argentine army and the Falklands/Malvinas War. He co-edited Guerras del siglo XX. Experiencias y representaciones en perspectiva global (2019) and La cuestión Malvinas en la Argentina del siglo XX. Una historia social y cultural (2020).

Rob McLaughlin holds a BA in History, Law, and International Relations and a PhD from Cambridge. He was Professor of Military Security Law and Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. He served in the Royal Australian Navy for several decades as both a Seaman officer and a Legal officer. He served in surface units and submarines, and deployed to East Timor, Iraq, and on maritime border protection operations. His research areas are law of the sea, maritime law enforcement, the law of armed conflict, and national security law. Among his publications, it is worth mentioning United Nations Naval Peace Operations in the Territorial Sea (2009), Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners (2017) and Recognition of Belligerency and the Law of Armed Conflict (2020).