Felicity Aulino is a Five-College Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Miriam Goheen is Professor of Anthropology-Sociology and Black Studies at Amherst College and editor of The African Studies Review. Her publications include Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Highlands.
Stanley J. Tambiah is Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He began field work in Sri Lanka (1956–1959), the island of his birth, and later worked in Thailand. He is the author of ten books, including World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Religion and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background (1976), The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism (1984), Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (1990), Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka (1992), and Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (1996).
Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous books, including Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life and Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century, both also published by Duke University Press.