Contributors

Steven Ammerman received his PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles with a dissertation titled “Human-Animal Dynamics at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh, India.” His primary research interests relate to the interactions between humans and animals in cities in the past, which he examines through a combination of zooarchaeology and textual analysis approaches. He can be reached at stevammer@ucla.edu.

Traci Ardren is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami. She received her PhD from Yale University. Her research focuses on issues of identity and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record, especially the ways plants shape human behavior and belief in the pre-Columbian Maya world and peninsular south Florida. She can be reached at tardren@miami.edu.

Katelyn J. Bishop is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the role of animals in the social lives of people in ancient North and Central America and on the active role animals played in situations of emerging social inequality.

Karen Mohr Chávez was an archaeologist with research projects in Peru and Bolivia, particularly focused on the Titicaca Basin region. She was a co-director of the Yaya-Mama Archaeological Project in Peru and Bolivia.

Sergio J. Chavez is professor of anthropology in the Department of Philosophy, Anthropology and Religion at Central Michigan University. He received his MA and PhD at Michigan State University. His interdisciplinary archaeological research focuses on the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru and Bolivia. He can be reached at sergio.chavez@cmich.edu.

Stanislava R. Chavez is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Program at Wayne State University. Her current research focuses on the continuity and change of cultural identities on the Copacabana Peninsula of the Lake Titicaca. She can be reached at stanislava.chavez@wayne.edu.

Emilie M. Cobb is a PhD student at the University of California, Merced in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Emilie is interested in bioarchaeological representations of identity, sex and gender, and diet in South America. She can be reached at ecobb4@ucmerced.edu.

Jago Cooper is director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Professor of Art and Archaeology at the University of East Anglia. Jago studies the long-term human experience of sudden environmental change and climatic hazards to inform contemporary adaptation and resilience-building strategies.

Harper Dine is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her dissertation project involves the use of paleoethnobotanical and archaeological methods to investigate household foodways, agricultural strategies, and political economy in the northern Maya lowlands, contextualized by the Late Classic period (600–800 CE) construction of the monumental sacbe (causeway) connecting the sites of Yaxuna and Coba. Her research is also framed by interest in food security and people-plant relations. She can be contacted at harper_dine@brown.edu.

Chelsea Fisher is a faculty member in the Environmental Studies Program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her research uses archaeology to understand the deep histories of environmental justice conflicts. She can be reached at cfisher@wlu.edu or through her website at www.chelsearfisher.com/.

Jennifer Huebert is an archaeologist and archaeobotanist. She received a PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her expertise is in the analysis of wood and other plant materials, with a special focus on the Pacific Islands. She can be reached at jj@sunarc.co.nz.

Dale L. Hutchinson is professor emeritus at the Department of Anthropology and the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While he continues to do research and writing, he also spends a lot of time gardening and playing music.

Sara L. Juengst is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research examines human skeletal remains to address questions about power, disease, violence, and identity in the past, particularly in western South America. She is co-director of the Proyecto Arqueológico de los Ríos Culebra-Colin in coastal Ecuador and can be reached at sjuengst@uncc.edu.

Kanika Kalra is an independent researcher based in northeast Ohio. She received her interdisciplinary PhD in archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include environmental archaeology, historical archaeology, and South Asian history. She can be reached at kanikak@g.ucla.edu.

Frank Oliva is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa and is national manager of the Marine Environmental Data Section at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of the Government of Canada. His research focuses on paleotempestology and hydroclimatology more broadly. He can be reached at foliva@uottawa.ca.

Matthew C. Peros is professor of environment and geography at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. His research interests include paleoenvironmental reconstruction, paleotempestology, and environmental archaeology; and he has active research programs in the Caribbean and eastern Canada. He can be reached at mperos@ubishops.ca.

Jordan Pickett is assistant professor of classics at the University of Georgia, Athens. With research focused on the environmental history of cities in the Roman and Byzantine Mediterranean, he has authored or coauthored articles for PLOS One, the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of Late Antiquity, the Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Human Ecology, and others. He is co-PI for survey of fortifications at Sardis in western Turkey.

Seth Quintus is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He received his MS from North Dakota State University and his PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research centers on the recursive relationship between humans and their environments. He can be reached at squintus@hawaii.edu.

John Robb is professor of European prehistory and director of studies, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He has run major projects on southern Italian archaeology, the biographies of ordinary people in medieval Cambridge, and the theoretical history of the human body. In addition to these topics, he is interested in material culture theory, burial taphonomy and ritual, and prehistoric art.

Monica L. Smith is professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines long-term human-environmental dynamics, urbanism, and foodways. She can be reached at smith@anthro.ucla.edu.

Jillian A. Swift is project manager and archaeologist for Pacific Legacy, Inc. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research applies zooarchaeology and biomolecular methods to questions of human land use and long-term sustainability on Pacific Islands. She can be reached at swift@pacificlegacy.com.

Silvia Tomášková is professor of anthropology in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. She received a BA from McGill, MAs from Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her focus has been knowledge production, with a query as to how traces of the very distant prehistoric past are (and have been) used for a variety of arguments. Silvia has worked in Central/Eastern Europe, Siberia, and South Africa. She is a stone tool specialist as well as a feminist and gender archaeologist and has offered a few insights on rock art. She can be reached at silvia.tomaskova@ubc.ca.

Kyungsoo Yoo is a faculty member in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his MS at Yonsei University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on soils, with special emphasis on the intersection of the carbon cycle, weathering, and human land uses. He can be reached at kyoo@umn.edu.