1. Ali Igmen (Program of Oral History, California State University, Long Beach, USA )
2. Alexander Morrison (Faculty of History, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom)
3. Catherine Poujol (French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
4. Nathan Light (Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
5. Tomohiko Uyama (Department of History and Area Studies / Slavic Studies, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
6. Sergei Oushakine (Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
7. Aminat Chokobaeva (Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies, National University of Australia, Canberra, Australia)