Zoë Crossland is an associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead.
Rosemary A. Joyce is the Alice S. Davis Endowed Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica and Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology.