Rui Gomes Coelho (Ph.D. Binghamton University 2017) is an archaeologist interested in historical archaeology, archaeology of the contemporary, critical heritage and photography. He is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and researcher at UNIARQ – Center for Archaeology, University of Lisbon.

James L. Flexner is Senior 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. He is a co-editor (with Victoria Rawlings and Lynette Riley) of a book titled Community-led research. Walking many pathways together that will be published with Sydney University Press in 2021.

Uroš Matić hasd been a Research Associate (post-doc) of the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s Cairo Branch of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2017 at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies of the University of Muenster (Germany). For his Ph.D. he received Harrassowitz’s Philippika Prize (2018) and the Best Paper Award (2020) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Matić was a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) P.R.I.M.E fellow and a guest researcher at the OREA-Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2018 to 2019. He has been working on several field projects in Egypt (Tell el-Dab^ca, Aswan and Kom Ombo) since 2012. His most recent publications include Ethnic identities in the land of the pharaohs (2020) and Violence and gender in ancient Egypt (2021).

Gabriel Moshenska is Associate Professor in Public Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology, where he coordinates the MA in public archaeology. He is the author of Material cultures of childhood in Second World War Britain (2019) and the editor of Key concepts in public archaeology (2017), both open-access. His research interests include the archaeology of twentieth-century conflicts, the history of archaeology and the public understanding of the past.

Astrid Nyland is Associate Professor and Project Coordinator for Archaeological Excavations for the Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Norway. Nyland defended her Ph.D. in 2016, having investigated lithic procurement practices and quarrying from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age. Her research now involves studies of Mesolithic and Neolithic sites and material, exploring human–rock relations through a variety of methods and theoretical approaches. Nyland is currently leading a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2021–2024) studying the social impact of the Storegga tsunami battering the west coast of Norway 8,200 years ago. Other research interests include landscape archaeology, rock art and sensory archaeology. Find her on Academia, ResearchGate and Twitter (@arkeostrida); orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5211-7775.

Kelly Reed is an archaeobotanist with interests in food systems, agricultural development, cultural adaptations to environmental change and global sustainability. Her work focuses predominantly on the reconstruction of past diet and subsistence strategies in Croatia and the wider Balkan region from the Neolithic to the Late Middle Ages (6000 B.C.–16th century AD). Currently Kelly is the Programme Manager for the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, which supports new interdisciplinary research that addresses the challenges of feeding the global population sustainably, healthily and equitably.

Sadie Watson has been a practitioner in field archaeology for over two decades and has in-depth knowledge of the profession and its pressures from her time as a MOLA Project Officer, responsible for complex urban sites with large teams. Sadie is also an elected member of the Advisory Council for the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and EDI rep for Prospect Union Archaeologists’ Branch. Sadie’s Ph.D. and time as Archaeologist in Residence at the University of Cambridge focused on current challenges to archaeological practice and the need for the sector to revolutionize its offering. Her current UKRI Fellowship intends to ensure that development-led archaeology leads to meaningful and relevant research and genuine community participation. The outcomes will include a toolkit enabling developments to be refocused to ensure that public benefit is at the core of every archaeological project in the future.

LouAnn Wurst is a Professor in the Industrial Heritage and Archaeology programme at Michigan Technological University. Her research focuses on Marxist theory as a way to understand issues of capitalism, class, labour, ideology and gender in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research projects include a long-term study of the transformations in capitalist agriculture based on excavations at 22 farms in central New York’s Finger Lakes National Forest, research on industrial labour in the lumber industry, emphasizing the cordwood lumber camps operated by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company in Michigan, and questions of labour at the Civilian Conservation Corp and German prisoner-of-war Camp Au Train in Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest.

Nicolas Zorzin is Assistant Professor at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and Research Associate at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Maison archéologie et ethnologie (MAE). He is co-director of the Archaeological Toumba Serron Project, focusing on the Final Neolithic in central Macedonia, Greece. His research interests include the political economy of contemporary archaeological practices; Neolithic Greece; and cultural heritage management in Quebec, France, the United Kingdom and Taiwan.