Joanna Bourke is the PI for this project, although the day-to-day running is done by Dr Ruth Beecher. Joanna is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, including histories on modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, what it means to be human, pain, and rape, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek. Disgrace is also an audio book. Joanna is a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular correspondent for newspapers.