Selim Hilmi Ozkan is Professor of History at the Yildiz Technical University. He is currently working on the Ottoman diplomacy and Ottoman foreign policy. His most recent publications include “Reasons for Migration of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire before 1915”, African and Asian Studies, 19, 3, (2020), 282-305; and “Arms Smuggling across Ottoman Borders in the Second Half of the 19th Century” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18, 3, (2016), 297-312. He is currently working on a book project: Migrations and Migration Routes from Cebel-i Lebanon to United States of America End of Nineteenth Centuries.

Dr Mrs Neeta M. Khandpekar holds the position of Professor in the Department of History at the University of Mumbai. She has wide teaching experience of over three decades. She was awarded D.Litt degree by the University of Sambalpur, Odisha. Her interests include Modern/ Maritime History and Christian Missionary History. She has visited several countries like USA, Canada, Italy, Malaysia, Indonesia & China with support from UGC and ICHR, New Delhi. A member of more than 14 professional academic bodies and was in the Board of Studies of University of Mumbai from 2004-10. The other distinctions include certificate of merit by Government of Maharashtra (1986), Mumbai University History Department Scholarship (1989), UGC Teacher Fellowship Award (1999) and UGC Postdoctoral research Award (2004). She has authored two books namely Konkan Coast: and other on Christian Missionaries. Recently she was deputed as ICCR Chair Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.