Editorial Board

MARK ALDENDERFER

Mark Aldenderfer is the Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship Endowed Chair in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He has worked on the three high elevation plateaus of the planet—Ethiopian, Andean, and Tibetan—over the course of his career and currently works in the High Himalayas of Nepal. He has edited or written more than 10 books, including Montane Foragers (1998), and has published numerous articles and book chapters in journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Archaeological Science, Latin American Antiquity, and others. He has lectured widely, and in 2013-14, he was the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America. He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Wenner-Gren Foundation and was also an elected member on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association. He is a former editor-in-chief of Current Anthropology, is an associate editor for anthropology of Science Advances, co-edited Latin American Antiquity, and serves on a number of other editorial boards.

STEVEN P. BLACK

Associate Professor in Anthropology, Georgia State University

Research Interests

Linguistic and medical anthropology, ethnomusicology, global health, planetary health, ethics and morality, care, and verbal/ performance, South Africa, Costa Rica, and the United States

Recent Publications

• Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.
• “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care.” Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 79-95, 2018.
• “Ethics, Expertise, and Inequities in Global Health Discourses: The Case of Non-Profit HIV/AIDS Research in South Africa.” In N. Avineri, L. Graham, E. Johnson, R. Conley Riner, and J. Rosa (eds.), Language and Social Justice in Practice. New York: Routledge, p. 119-127, 2018.
• “Sexual Stigma: Markedness, Taboo, Containment, and Emergence.” In Kira Hall and Edward Barrett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Published online in advance.
• “Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory.” American Anthropologist 119(1): 46-57, 2017.

ČARNA BRKOVIĆ

is Substitute Professor in Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Goettingen.

Research Interests

Political Imagination; Humanitarianism; Morality and Ethics; Gender and Sexuality; Social Change; Histories of Ethnology and Anthropology; Europe

Recent Publications

• Postsocialist Mediterranean. Scalar gaze, moral self and relational labor of favors in Eastern Europe Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 92: 82–97, 2022.
• Minority Sexualities, Kinship and Non-Autological Freedom in Montenegro Social Anthropology 29(2): 387–403, 2021.
• European Anthropology as a Fortuitous Accident? Reflections on the Sustainability of the Field Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 29(2): 31–48, 2020.
• Preference for censure: Yugoslav film and paradoxes of visibility after the Cold War. Terrain. Anthropologie und Sciences Humaines, 2019.
• Epistemological Eclecticism: Difference and the “Other” in the Balkans and Beyond Anthropological Theory 18(1): 106–128, 2018.

SHADRECK CHIRIKURE

Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, Director of RLAHA, British Academy Global Professor

Research Interests

Archaeometallurgy, human material relations, innovation, skills, knowledge, technology and society, ancient technology and Being Human, archaeological science and globalisation, heritage science, sustainability

Recent Publications

• “Archaeometallurgical Explorations of Bloomery Iron Smelting at Mutoti 2, an Early Iron Age Site in Venda, Northern South Africa.” Mathoho ENN, Nyamushosho RTT, Chirikure S. January 2023, METALS.

• “Reconstructing the geological provenance and long-distance movement of rectangular, fishtail, and croisette copper ingots in Iron Age Zambia and Zimbabwe.” Stephens J, Killick D, Chirikure S. January 2023, PloS one.

• “Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: Decolonising the narrative or destroying the heritage?” Chirikure S, Ndoro W, Chitima SS, Tevera G, Thondhlana T. December 2022, Chapter in Cultural Heritage Management in Africa: The Heritage of the Colonized.

• “Modelling Land Use in the Gold Belt Territories of Iron Age Southern Zambezia.” Nyamushosho RT, Chirikure S, Sitas A, Mathoho EN. September 2022, LAND.

• “Mtanye revisited: new insights into the Middle Iron Age of southern Zambezia.” Scholfield JR, Nyamushosho RT, Mushangwe CT, Chirikure S. July 2022, AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA.

JASON HAWKES

Lecturer, South Asian Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Project Curator, The British Museum

Research Interests

Material and visual culture, the relationship between archaeology and text, landscape, religion, urbanism, cultural and environmental interactions, Asia and the Indian Ocean

Recent Publications

• Hawkes, J., R. Abbas, A. Casile, Jaseera C.M., C. Lefrancq & S. Toraskar. 2022. Grounding Texts and Theories of Societal Change. Antiquity 95(384): 1-17. doi: 10.1017/aqy.2022.28

• Hawkes, J. 2021. An Imaterial Problem: Towards and Archaeology of Textiles and Textile Production in Historical South Asia, Asian Perspectives 60(2): 1-34

• Hawkes, J. & A. Casile. 2020. Back to Basics: Returning to the Evidence and Mapping Knowledge in South Asian Archaeology, Asian Archaeology. doi: 10.1007/s41826-020-00032-4

• Hawkes, J., Abbas, R., Shete, G. & Willis, M. (2020) Iron Age Stratigraphy: The Sequence at Chachondi, Vidarbha. In L. Greaves and A. Hardy eds., Religions, Society, Trade and Kingship: Archaeology and Art in South Asia and along the Silk Road - 3500 BCE-5th century CE, Vol. I. New Delhi: Dev Publishers, pp. 43-61.

• Hawkes, J., R. Abbas & S. Toraskar. 2020. Multi-Period Regional Survey Data from Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India, Journal of Open Archaeology Data 8(1): 2. doi: 10.5334/joad.61

• Kennet, D., Hawkes, J. & Willis, M. (2020) Paithan Excavation: Historical, Archaeological, Geographical and Epigraphical Contexts. In D. Kennet, J. Varaprasada Rao and M. Kasturi Bai eds., Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra: Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 324-335.

• Lefrancq, C. & J. Hawkes. 2020. Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty: Regional Pottery Typologies in South Asian Archaeology, Open Archaeology 6: 269-328. doi: 10.1515/opar-2020-0112

ELIZABETH KLARICH

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Smith College

Research Interests

Urbanism, monumentality, ancient and contemporary pottery production, collaborative archaeology, Andes, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (www.pukara.org)

Recent Publications

• “Pukara”. In Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press, 2019.
• (with C. Chávez). Late Formative Period Ceramics from Pukara: Insights from Excavations on the Central Pampa. In Images in Action: The Southern Andean Iconographic Series, edited by W.H. Isbell, M.I. Uribe, A. Tiballi and E.P. Zegarra. Cotsen Institute Press, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018.
• (with A. Levine and C. Schultze). Abundant Exotics and Cavalier Crafting: Obsidian Use and Emerging Complexity in the Northern Lake Titicaca Basin. In Abundance: An Archaeological Analysis of Plenitude, edited by M.L. Smith, pp. 139-164. University Press of Colorado, 2017.
• Subsistencia, intercambio y ritual: Una reconsideración de los camélidos de Quelcatani. In Arte Rupestre de la Región del Lago Titicaca, edited by M. Strecker. Contribuciones al Estudio del Arte Rupestre Sudamericano, SIARB 8: 50-62. La Paz, Bolivia, 2016.
• “Feasting.” In Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, edited by K. Metheny and M. Beaudry, pp. 157-159. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015.
• Crafting, Community and Collaboration: Reflections on the Ethnographic Sala Project at the Pukara Lithic Museum, Peru. Museum Anthropology 37(2): 18-32, 2014.
• (with N. Román). Scale and Diversity at Late Formative Period Pukara. In Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology III, edited by A.Vranich, E. Klarich and C. Stanish, pp. 105-120. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, No. 51, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012.
• Klarich, E., editor. Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2010.

BERNARD C. PERLEY

Associate Professor and Director of Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Research Interests

First Nations and Indigenous Studies, Indigeneity, Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Anthropology.

Recent Publications

• “Indigenous Translocality: Emergent Cosmogonies in the New World Order.” 2020. Theory & Event 23(4) Pp 977-1003. John Hopkins University Press.
• “Mascots, Name Calling, and Racial Slurs: Seeking Social Justice through Audience Coalescence.” 2019. In Language and Social Justice in Practice. Netta Avineri, Laura R. Graham, Eric J. Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, and Jonathan Rosa eds. Routledge.
• “Future Imperfect: Advocacy, Rhetoric and Public Anxiety over Maliseet Language Life and Death.” 2017. In Engaging Native American Publics: Current Anthropological Engagements. Paul V. Kroskrity, Barbra Meek, and Elinor Nevins eds. Pp. 107-129. Routledge: London.
• “Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism.” 2016. In After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship. Patrice Petro and Kennan Ferguson eds. Pp. 215-238. Rutgers University Press: Rutgers.
• “Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical Indigeneity.” 2014. In Performing Indigeneity: Historic and Contemporary Displays of Indigeneity. Laura Graham and Glenn Penny eds. Pp. 32-54. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln.

DONNA J. SEIFERT

Donna J. Seifert is an independent scholar, who spent most of her career working in historic preservation and cultural resources management. She maintains her registration in the Register of Professional Archaeologists.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University and a Master’s degree and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Iowa. She served on the board of the Society for American Archaeology and the board of the Register of Professional Archaeologists. Her service to the Society of Historical Archaeology includes a term on the board and as president, as well as several years as associate editor of the society’s journal, Historical Archaeology.

Her research focus is the archaeology of the historic period in Central Mexico, the Mid-Atlantic states, and northern New Mexico. Special interests include urban households and neighborhoods; the role of ceramics in understanding household composition and status; and brothels and prostitution. She served as co-author, with Rebecca Yamin, of The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits (2019, University Press of Florida).

YINONG ZHANG

Professor and Director of the Anthropology Institute, Shanghai University

Research Interests

Ethnic and Religious Diversity; Borders and Boundaries; Globalization and the Nation-state; Post/Colonialism; Social Lives of Keywords; Tibetan and Chinese Muslim (Hui) societies in China

Recent Publications

• Book review “Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples in China”, by Michael Dillon. Journal of Asian Studies, 79(1): 161-163, February 2020.
• Commentary on “The Miao festival crowd: mediations of presence, body politics, and an ethnic public in ‘minority’ China”, Current Anthropology, Volume 60, 2019.
• “Diversity and Politics of Development in China’s Ethnic Borderland” Etnografìas Contemporáneas 2(2): 114-133. University of San Marin, 2015.
• “The Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau to the Seventh Century A.D.: Perspectives and Research from China and the West since 1950.” with Mark Aldenderfer. in The Tibetan History Reader, eds Gray Tuttle and Kurtis Schaeffer, Columbia University Press, 2013.
• “Between Nation and Religion: Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Network in Post-Reform China”，Chinese Sociological Review, vol. 45, no.1, Fall 2012.

MOLLY ZUCKERMAN

Biological Anthropologist and Professor within the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University

Research Interests

Bioarchaeology, especially social bioarchaeology; paleopathology, paleoepidemiology, and biocultural anthropology; the biosocial determinants of health inequalities and disease experiences within past populations; bioethics; epidemiologic transitions; the evolution and social ecology of infectious disease; acquired syphilis; pandemics; and institutionalization, disability, and health.

Recent Publications

• Zuckerman, MK., AG Tribble, RM Austin, C. DeGaglia, and T. Emery. 2022. Biocultural approaches to past pandemics: Employing a biocultural framework to interpret bioarchaeological, paleopathological, and molecular anthropological evidence on pandemics in the past. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24647

• Austin, RM., Zuckerman, MK., Honap, TP., Lee, H., Ward, GK., Warinner, C., Sankaranarayanan, K., and Hofman, CA. 2022.  Remembering St. Louis Individual—Structural Violence and Acute Bacterial Infections in a Historical Anatomical Collection. Nature Communications Biology 5, 1050 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03890-z

• Zuckerman, MK., T. Emery², C. DeGaglia², L. Gibson. 2022. Institutionalization within the Context of Pandemic Infectious Disease Examining Social Vulnerability to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic among Individuals Institutionalized in the Mississippi State Asylum. Bioarchaeology International 6 (1-2): 41-57. https://doi.org/10.5744/bai.2021.0006

• Zuckerman, MK., Austin, RA., and Hofman, CA. 2021. Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains: Exploring Their Reinterpretation as Representations of Racial Violence. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past. March (694): 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162211008815

• Zuckerman, MK and A Dafoe. 2021. Disease in the Context of Environmental Change. In: The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Robbins Schug, Gwen, Ed. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. P. 43-59. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351030465-4/disease-context-environmental-change-molly-zuckerman-ashley-dafoe

• Zuckerman, MK. 2020. Gender. In: Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology. Cheverko, CM., Hubbe, M., and J Prince-Buitenhuys (Eds.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. P. 28-45. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429262340-3/gender-bioarchaeology-molly-zuckerman

• Zuckerman, MK. 2020. Identity and Health: Exploring Relationships among Health, Disease, and Identity in Past Populations. In: Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited. Eds. Knudson, KJ., and CM Stojanowski. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. P. 163-185. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75418