Anwen Cooper is interested in the Later Bronze and Iron Ages of North West Europe, interpretive approaches to material culture and landscape, critical approaches to archaeological practice, and prehistoric pottery. Following ten years of fieldwork (survey and excavation) from 1996 to 2006, her Ph.D. offered a multidisciplinary perspective on research in British prehistory over the last 40 years. Before beginning work on the Grave Goods project she was a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded English Landscape and Identities project (EngLaId) at the University of Oxford.
James Flexner is a lecturer in historical archaeology and heritage at the University of Sydney. His interests include historical archaeology, landscape archaeology, the Oceanic region and how to build a better world for human beings to live in. His book An archaeology of early Christianity in Vanuatu was published by the Australian National University Press in 2016.
Duncan Garrow’s research interests include the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition, long-term histories of deposition, burial practices, the integration of commercial-sector and university-based archaeology, archaeological theory and interdisciplinary approaches to material culture. He teaches later European prehistory (with a particular focus on Britain) and archaeological theory at the University of Reading. Duncan previously worked at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (1996–2002), which he left to undertake his Ph.D. on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits in East Anglia. He is currently co-directing (with Fraser Sturt) an excavation and survey project focused on Neolithic crannogs in the Outer Hebrides.
Catriona Gibson has worked extensively in both commercial and academic archaeology. Her Ph.D. at the University of Reading focused on the Later Bronze Age of Western Iberia. After many years in the field, predominantly working for Wessex Archaeology, she became a researcher on the Ancient Britain in the Atlantic Zone project (ABrAZo), and helped develop the AHRC-funded Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages project (AEMA), both based at the University of Wales. Her research interests include exploring evidence for connectivity and mobility during later prehistory and forging stronger bridges between developer-led and academic archaeology.
Eloise Govier, MA, M.Litt. (St Andrews) Ph.D. (archaeology, Wales), is an artist conducting practice-led research in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and her research interests focus on material interactions in the past and present. She lectures in anthropology and archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lynn Meskell is Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. At the Penn Museum she is curator in the Middle East and Asia sections. She is also A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (2019–2025). Lynn holds an honorary professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and in the Center for Archaeology, Heritage & Museum Studies, Shiv Nadar University, India. Previously she was the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Lynn is the founding editor of the Journal of social archaeology. Her most recent book, A future in ruins. UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace (2018), reveals UNESCO’s early forays into a one-world archaeology and its later commitments to global heritage.
Trinidad Rico is Associate Professor and Director of the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies programme in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University, but currently a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow of the American Council for Learned Societies at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences of Stanford University. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology (Stanford University), an MA in principles of conservation (University College London) and a BA in archaeology (University of Cambridge). Her work examines the global rise of heritage industries, its civil societies and discourses, with an emphasis on the Muslim world. She co-authored the volumes Cultural heritage in the Arabian peninsula (2014) and Heritage keywords. Rhetoric and redescription in cultural heritage (2015), and is founding editor of the series Heritage Studies in the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as editor of the first volume of the series, The making of Islamic heritage. Muslim pasts and heritage presents (2017).
Monika Stobiecka is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She received an MA in history of art and an MA in archaeology from the University of Warsaw. She collaborated with the National Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Foksal Gallery and the Zachęta Polish National Gallery. She was granted scholarships by the Lanckoroński Foundation in 2016 (research at the British Museum and John Soane’s Museum), the Kościuszko Foundation in 2018, and the Foundation for Polish Science in 2019.
