Joanne M.A. Murphy (editor) - Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

Michael Aung-Thwin is a professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa. His main areas of interest include the history of Myanmar, myth, and historiography of early Myanmar, the classical states of Southeast Asia.

Ronald K. Faulseit is an assistant professor at Pierce College. His work focuses on the social and political organization of ancient societies, specifically, how societies reorganize after the collapse or fragmentation of political institutions. He conducts research in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

Gary M. Feinman is the MacArthur curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History. His research areas include the Valley of Oaxaca and Shandong, China. He has directed archaeological settlement pattern research in both regions and household excavations in Oaxaca.

Florence Gaignerot-Driessen received her PhD in Greek archaeology from the Sorbonne in 2013 and is a research associate at the UMR 5133 Archorient, Lyon. Her research focuses on the Aegean world (14th7th centuries), in particular on the formation process of the polis.

Dante Garca is from Oaxaca, Mexico. He got his Liceniatura from (ENAH) Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. He has worked on both research and CRM projects throughout Mexico, most recently in Baja California.

Gyles Iannone is a professor in the anthropology department at Trent University. His main areas of interest include archaeology, resilience theory, settlement archaeology, early tropical state formations, Mesoamerica (especially Maya), and South and Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar and Cambodia).

Chapurukha M. Kusimba is a professor at the University of South Floridas Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Environment and Department of Anthropology. His research examines the development of complex societies along the Kenyan coast during pre-colonial times. His current archaeological field research focuses on the ancient maritime trade between East Africa, South Asia, and East Asia.

Alma Gabriela Lpez Rivera is from San Luis Potos, Mexico. She got her licentiatura in Archaeology from Universidad Autnoma de San Luis Potos, she is now working on her Masters thesis at Minnesota State University in Mankato.

Srikumar M. Menon is an architect specializing in the ancient and early architecture of the Indian Subcontinent and is an associate professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. His academic interests focus on ancient architectureprehistoric monuments, as well as later monuments, such as stupas and temples. Currently, he is engaged in efforts to understand construction and stone-working in early temple architecture, and the practice of architecture in the Early Historic to Medieval Periods in India.

Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and her work has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.