Yuri Berezkin (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences / European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia)
Yuri Chistov (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia)
Boris Firsov (European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia)
Sheila Fitzpatrick (Sydney University, Sydney, Australia)
Evgeniy Golovko (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia)
Andrei Golovnev (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia)
Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Alexander Panchenko (Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskiy Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences / European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia)
Elena Perekhvalskaya (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia)
Konstantin Pozdniakov (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France)
David Ransel (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Sergei Shtyrkov (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences / European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia)
Steve Smith (University of Essex, Colchester, UK)
Sergey Sokolovskiy (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia)
Andrey Toporkov (A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Maria Voeikova (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia)
Valentin Vydrin (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France)
Faith Wigzell (University College, London, UK)