John C. Barrett is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, having previously taught at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. His research interests focus upon European prehistory and archaeological theory. He is the author of Archaeology and its Discontents (Routledge 2021) and Fragments from Antiquity (Blackwell 1995), and co-author with Michael Boyd of From Stonehenge to Mycenae (Bloomsbury 2019).
Liv Nilsson Stutz is a Professor of Archaeology at the Linnaeus University in Sweden. She specializes in the archaeology of death, and her work combines archaeothanatology with social and critical theory to discuss ritual practice and the treatment of the dead body as a strategy to make sense of death in the past. She has written extensively on the synchronization of method and theory and on the practice of interdisciplinary in archaeology. She is a founding member of the Archaeothanatology Working Group and a member of the Linnaeus University Research Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She currently leads the research project: “Ethical Entanglements. The caring for human remains in museums and research”.
Jongil Kim is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University, with research interests in European and Central Asian prehistory, and archaeological theory.
Claire Smith is a Professor of Archaeology at Flinders University, South Australia. She has worked with Aboriginal communities in the Barunga region, Northern Territory, annually since 1990 and with Ngadjuri people in South Australia since 1998. She is a leader in the decolonisation of archaeological theory and practice.
Kellie Pollard is a Wiradjuri archaeologist, lecturer and researcher at Charles Darwin University. In 2019, she and Emily Poelina-Hunter became the first Aboriginal women to be awarded doctorates in archaeology. Among her research interests are Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies and axiologies, histories and archaeologies of contact after invasion, truth-telling and treaty making.
Eloise Govier, MA, MLitt, PhD, is an artist and independent researcher 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 is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lesley McFadyen is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Birkbeck. She has written on Archaeology and Photography with Dan Hicks. Current research projects are Awakening Sleeping Giants in Arran with Kenny Brophy, Gavin MacGregor and Nicki Whitehouse, and Dead Isle on the Ardeer Peninsula with Alex Boyd.
Lynn Meskell is Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the Weitzman School of Design, and curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum. She is also AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (2019–2025). Building on her long-term UNESCO research, she is currently examining the entwined histories of colonialism, internationalism, espionage, and archaeology. At Penn Museum she focuses on the history, legacies, and linkages between the military-industrial-academic complex and archaeological expeditions.
Paul Newson is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the American University of Beirut. His research interests cover post-conflict archaeology and the archaeology of the Graeco-Roman Near East.
Ruth Young is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. Her research interests are post-conflict archaeology, and the historical archaeology and heritage of the Middle East and South Asia.
Anders Ögren is Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University and Director of Uppsala Centre for Business History. He specialises in financial and macroeconomic history, history of economic thought and is also part of the Viking Phenomenon project. His latest publication is “The political economy of banking regulation: interest groups and rational choice in the forming of the Swedish banking system, 1822 – 1921” in Business History 63:2 in 2021.
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University, and part of the Viking Phenomenon project. A specialist in Viking studies, she works in the field of archaeological science, most recently with the acknowledged study on a female Viking warrior combining archaeology and genetics.
John Ljungkvist is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University, and part of the Viking Phenomenon project. A specialist in Vendel and Viking studies, he works in the fields of boat burials, centers power, and patterns of exchange and resource exploitation. He is engaged in publishing results from the neighboring sites Valsgärde and Gamla Uppsala.
Ben Raffield is a Researcher and Associate Professor of archaeology at Uppsala University, where he works as part of the Viking Phenomenon project. Raffield specialises in the study of the Viking Age and works on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to military and social organisation, conflict, migration, social inequality, and slavery.
Neil Price is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he currently directs the ten-year Viking Phenomenon project for the Swedish Research Council. A specialist in the Viking Age, his latest book Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings was published in 2020.
