Melanie Oppenheimer holds the Chair of History and is Dean of the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University in South Australia. Her research interests focus on women, war and volunteering in the twentieth century, and she has a special interest in soldier settlement and Red Cross history.
Margaret Anderson researches and writes on women's history, the history and demography of the family and on aspects of public history. She has held senior positions as a public historian in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria, and is a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.
Mandy Paul is the director of the Migration Museum, a museum of the History Trust of South Australia, and has previously worked in museums around Australia and in the United Kingdom. She has a long history of working in Aboriginal Australia, which began when she was native title historian at the Central Land Council, Alice Springs. She has postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies, and her research interests include South Australian migration and Indigenous history and historical practice in the context of museums and native title law.