Willeke Wendrich, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) & Chairperson of the Board of Directors

Willeke Wendrich is a Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Digital Humanities at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. She is an expert in Egyptian archaeology, Editorial Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, and Editor in Chief of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. She is also co-director of the Fayum, Digital Karnak, Keck Program in Digital Cultural Mapping and AEgArOn.

Fred Limp, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

William (Fred) Limp is the Leica Geosystems Chair and University Professor at the Center for Spatial Technology (CAST) at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is the President of the Society of American Archaeology, the Founding Director Emeritus of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology, and an expert in Geomatics and North American archaeology.

Lynn Swartz Dodd, University of Southern California (USC) & IFR Treasurer

Lynn Swartz Dodd is a Lecturer at the Department of Religion and Curator for the Archaeology Study Collection at USC. She is also the director of the Tell al-Judaidah Publication Project, co-director of the Kenan Tepe Excavations (Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project, co-organizer of the Shared Heritage Initiative and Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group, and co-founder of the Institute of Shared Heritage at USC. She is an expert in Near Eastern archaeology with a strong emphasis on Turkey.

Jason de Leon, University of Michigan

Jason De Leon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He directs the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP),a long-term ethnographic and archaeological study focused on clandestine migration between Mexico and the United States.  He is an expert in ethnoarchaeology, migration, and the U.S./Mexico border.

Anthony Graesch, Connecticut College

Anthony P. Graesch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Connecticut College. His research and teaching address the archaeology of North America, ethnoarchaeology, modern material culture, and mixed-methods social science research.  He is the director of the Welqámex Household Archaeological Research Project in the Fraser Valley of southwestern British Columbia as well as the Ethnoarchaeology of Smoking and Identity in Urban America.  His publication record reflects expertise in household archaeology, labor, colonialism, archaeological method, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of material culture.

Ana Campos-Holland, Connecticut College

Ana Campos-Holland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Connecticut College.  Her teaching and research specialties are law, criminology, punishment, family, and childhood.  Combining these specialties, her “Fragile Fatherhood” research project looks into parenthood practices within criminal subcultures and while under mass correctional supervision.  In a more recent project, Campos-Holland is studying drug related organized-crime in Mexico, with a focus on cartel conflicts, the public display of homicide victims, and the emerging narco related music.

Barra O’Donnabhain, University College Cork, Ireland

Barra O’Donnabahain is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University College Cork, Ireland. His research is focused on bioarchaeology, physical anthropology, and palaeopathology. He is an expert on Viking Age Ireland and Celticism and hadsworked throughout the world. He is presently the director of the Timoleague Archaeological Project.

Michael Love, California State University at Northridge (CSUN)

Michael Love is a faculty member at the Department of Anthropology, California State University at Northridge (CSUN).  His research interests are in Mesoamerica, the development of social complexity, and household archaeology. To date, Dr. Love research has concentrated on the Pacific coast region of Guatemala and investigating the early complex societies found there during the Preclassic period.   In these investigations he have sought to link the development of social differentiation, inequality, and political power with regional patterns of economic intensification and material culture change. 

Tim Williams, University College London (UCL), UK

Tim Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. His research is focused on urbanism, space syntax, complex societies, recording and analysis of complex stratigraphy, integration of complex data sets, management of archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, and world systems. He is presently the director of the Merv Archaeological and Site Management (Turkmenistan) and the co-director of Beirut Souks Excavations (Lebanon). He is interested in Roman, Levantine, Islamic, and Central Asian archaeology.

Ben Porter, University of California at Berkeley

Benjamin Porter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and Curator of Near Eastern archaeology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He co-directs the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project in Jordan and the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project. His research interests include critical social theory, the anthropology of tourism, and Near Eastern archaeology’s intellectual history.

Yuval Bar Zemer, Linear City Development LLC & IFR Secretery

Yuval Bar Zemer is President and CEO of Linear City LLC. He is a visionary, early developer of downtown, industrial properties in Los Angeles and a member of several for-profit and non-profit boards.

Rowan Flad, Harvard University

Rowan Flad is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China. This research incorporates interests in diachronic change in production processes, the intersection between ritual activity and production, the role of animals in early Chinese society - particularly their use in sacrifice and divination, and the processes involved in social change in general. He recently began a new research project in the Chengdu region focusing on prehistoric settlement patterns and social evolution.

Alex Fisch, Esq. Stutman, Triester & Glatt

Alexander (Alex) Fisch is an Attorney at Law and Shareholder at the law firm of Stutman, Treister, & Glatt. He represents corporate, municipal, and individual debtors, creditors, and stakeholder groups, in and out of bankruptcy proceedings. His practice has included navigating a broad range of complex insolvency-specific issues and matters that arise in corporate, municipal, and transnational insolvency proceedings, such as conducting and participating in sale processes and litigating plan confirmation, valuation, subordination, and labor disputes.

Frank McManamon, Arizona State University (ASU)

Francis (Frank) Pierce-McManamon is a Research Professor and the Executive Director of Digital Antiquity, a new Arizona State University center in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC). Until 2009, he was the Chief Archeologist of the National Park Service and Departmental Consulting Archeologist for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. Dr. McManamon has been involved in the development of policy, regulations, and guidance for public archaeology in the National Park system and throughout the government. He has special interests and expertise in archaeological resource management, the long-term access to and preservation of archaeological data, laws and regulations related to cultural resource management and historic preservation, and public outreach and education about archaeology and archaeological resources. He served as an expert member of the United States delegations to UNESCO negotiations on illegal artifact trafficking and the protection of underwater archeological resources. He has aksi conducted archeological investigations in eastern North America, Western Europe, and Micronesia.