List of contributors

Whitney Battle-Baptiste is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center. A historical archaeologist, her research centres on the intersection of race, gender, class and sexuality. She is the author of Black feminist archaeology (2011), which outlines the basic tenets of black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary archaeology as a whole.

Michael L. Blakey is Director of the Institute for Historical Biology and National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies and American Studies at William & Mary in the USA. He is past Director of the New York African Burial Ground Project and Curator of the W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection at Howard University, Research Associate in Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and President of the Association of Black Anthropologists.

Thomas J. Booth is a Senior Research Scientist in the Pontus Skoglund Laboratory of the Francis Crick Institute. He holds a B.Sc. in archaeological science, an M.Sc. in human osteology and funerary archaeology, and a Ph.D. in archaeology, all awarded by the University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology. His doctoral thesis was concerned with variation in the bacterial degradation of ancient human bones and what this can say about early taphonomy of human remains. For the last six years he has been working with geneticists on a variety of archaeogenetics projects investigating human population history and natural selection in Britain.

Rachel J. Crellin is Lecturer in Later Prehistory at the University of Leicester. Her research interests include the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and archaeological theory, especially New Materialist, feminist and post-humanist approaches to the past. She is the co-director of the Round Mounds of the Isle of Man project, which examines prehistoric burials on the island, and has just finished a book called Change and archaeology (in press).

Maryam Dezhamkhooy is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation alumna and previous Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of Birjand, Iran. She is a historical archaeologist with a broad interest in theory. Since 2003 she has concentrated on the archaeology of the recent/contemporary past and has focused on the study of violence and conflicts, colonialism, nationalism, gender and sexuality. Her works on gender in Sasanian Iran can be cited as pioneer works in Iran.

Martin Furholt is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo, working on the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Europe, focusing on social organization and mobility in prehistoric societies. He is currently conducting fieldwork in Slovakia and Serbia and has been engaged, through several publications, in the debate on the interpretation of the new archaeogenetic data, especially regarding the 3rd millennium B.C.

Oliver J.T. Harris is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. His research interests include the Neolithic of Britain and Europe and archaeological theory, especially New Materialism, assemblage theory and the role of affect. He is co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, which looks at long-term change on the West Coast of Scotland, and the author (with John Robb and others) of The body in history (2013) and (with Craig Cipolla) of Archaeological theory in the new millennium (2017).

Sam Holley-Kline is a Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of History at Florida State University. His current research project focuses on indigenous Totonac histories silenced in processes of archaeological excavation and reconstruction. Along with regional interests in the Mexican Gulf Coast, his broader theoretical concerns include cultural-heritage studies, the politics of archaeology, materiality and landscape. Holley-Kline holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Spanish and anthropology from DePauw University.

Kendra Jungkind is a faunal analyst and archaeologist from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta.

Nedra Lee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in historical archaeology examines the intersection of race and class in the lives of African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Texas Historical Commission, and has previously worked for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the City Museum of Washington, DC.

Robert Losey is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a specialist in faunal remains and human–animal relations.

Leila Papoli-Yazdi is a Guest Researcher at the Department of Historical Studies at Gothenburg University, an Alexander von Humboldt alumna, and a suspended Assistant Professor in Archaeology, since 2010, at the University of Neyshabour due to political issues. She is an archaeologist of the recent past who, since 2003, has concentrated on the disaster archaeology of Bam, a city located in south-eastern Iran which was dramatically damaged by an earthquake. Afterwards, she directed several projects in Pakistan, Kuwait and Iran. The main themes of all her projects are oppression, gender, colonialism and nationalism. Her works on political oppositions and nationalism from an archaeological viewpoint can be cited as pioneer works in Iran.

Haeden Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Combining archaeological excavation, archival research and environmental science, his research investigates the long-term social and ecological effects of industrial waste in western Canada.