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Christina Luke is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program and Anthropology Department and a Senior Research Associate Professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology from Cornell University. Her current work focuses on cultural heritage policy and legal implementation in the United States as well as archaeological landscapes and heritage management in western Turkey. She worked for two years in the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State and for four years directing programs for the Cultural Heritage Center and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She is co-director with Christopher H. Roosevelt of the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS) in western Turkey. She is the recipient of a 2010-2011 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant and is living in Izmir, Turkey.

Morag M. Kersel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University. She earned her PhD from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the legal remedies employed by countries in the Eastern Mediterranean to protect against archaeological site destruction as a result of the market demand for archaeological artifacts. From 2000-2003 she administered the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation at the U.S. Department of State. She co-directs with Meredith S. Chesson the "Follow the Pots" project in Jordan - an innovative investigation into the multiple social lives of archaeological artifacts. She is also a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where she is the co-director with Yorke Rowan of the Galilee Prehistory Project.