Wendy Ashmore is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She has conducted field research in the Maya lowlands in Guatemala, Honduras and Belize, and pioneered research in household archaeology and landscape archaeology.

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel is the John S. Ludington Trustees' Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Albion College. Her research on the Aztec state is based on extensive fieldwork in Central Mexico. Her analyses of gender relations in centralizing states are fundamental texts in the archaeology of gender.

John E. Clark is Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University. A leading scholar in lithic analysis and the study of Formative societies of Mesoamerica, he collaborates in fieldwork in coastal region of the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Julia A. Hendon is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Gettysburg College. She has conducted fieldwork in the Maya lowlands of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, developing analyses of social agency, gender, and household economic organization.

Arthur A. Joyce is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His fieldwork in Oaxaca contributes to the study of state organization and environmental impacts of the development of states.

Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted fieldwork in Honduras on sites ranging in age from the Formative through the Postclassic. Her research contributes to the study of social identity and difference, particularly age and gender.

Richard G. Lesure is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His fieldwork on the Formative period societies of Mexico's Pacific Chiapas Coast and highland Department of Tlaxcala is complemented by global comparative work, particularly on the significance of gender representation.

Linda Manzanilla is Investigador of the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of the Universidad Autónma de México. Widely recognized for her innovative research on households at Teotihuacan, she holds a doctorate in Egyptology from the Sorbonne.

Deborah L. Nichols is the William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in the Southwest United States and Central Mexico, exploring issues of craft production and cultural ecology.

John M. D. Pohl is an independent researcher affiliated to the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has conducted field research in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America, and is a noted authority on Postclassic Mexican codices.

Cynthia Robin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She has conducted fieldwork at a number of Maya archaeological sites in Belize, and also carried out ethnographic fieldwork on farming in the Maya lowlands.

Saburo Sugiyama is Professor of Archaeology in the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan. He has conducted long-term research at Teotihuacan investigating the symbolism of state government, in collaboration with both the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico and Arizona State University, where he is an adjunct research professor in anthropology.