Dmitri M. Bondarenko is an anthropologist, historian, and Africanist. Dmitri is Deputy Director for Research and Chair of the Center of Anthropology of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the International Center of Anthropology, HSE University, and Professor in Ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities. His research interests include anthropological, social, and historical theory, political anthropology, cultures and history of Africa, sociocultural transformations and intercultural interaction. Bondarenko has conducted fieldwork in six African countries and among people of African origin in Russia and the USA. Dmitri has authored over 550 publications, including eight monographs published in Russia, Germany, the USA, and the UK.

Gleb V. Aleksandrov, PhD, is Deputy Director of the International Centre of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics.