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<\/a>Mary C. Beaudry\u00a0(Archaeologist \u2013 PhD) is Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy at Boston University (USA), where she teaches historical and contemporary archaeology, archaeological theory, and material culture studies. She has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 10 books, the most recent of which is\u00a0Archaeology of<\/em>\u00a0Food: An Encyclopedia\u00a0<\/em>(Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), co-edited with Karen B. Metheny. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters and is co-editor with Karen B. Metheny of a new international book series, Archaeology of Food, published by University of Alabama Press.<\/p>\nLaurie Bertram<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Laurie K. Bertram is an assistant professor of Icelandic descent\u00a0at the University of Toronto in the Department of History. Her research\u00a0focus on gender, material culture and\u00a0migration in North America\u00a0and Iceland. \u201cMain Street Vikings: Making Icelandic-North Americans, 1870 onwards,\u201d her forthcoming book, (UTP) studies the formation of Icelandic immigrant identity and culture though alternate media, including food, \u201cViking\u201d souvenirs, ghost stories and immigrant fashion.<\/p>\nTim Flohr S\u00f8rensen<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Tim Flohr S\u00f8rensen (Archaeologist \u2013 PhD) is currently an Associate professor of contemporary archaeology and archaeological theory at the Saxo Institute, the University of Copenhagen. His current research focuses on processes of ruination and the unfinished, and central epistemological challenges to archaeology, such as absence, fragmentation, vagueness and tracelessness. He co-authored\u00a0Materialitet<\/em>(2012, Forlaget Samfundslitteratur) and published articles in several international journals includingArchaeological Dialogues<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Material Culture<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Contemporary Archaeology<\/em>, and he has co-edited a special issue of\u00a0Emotion, Space and Society<\/em>\u00a0on \u2018Staging Atmospheres\u2019. He is also the co-editor of the volumes\u00a0An Anthropology of Absence<\/em>\u00a0(2010, Springer Press),\u00a0Materialities of Passing<\/em>\u00a0(2016, Routledge) and\u00a0Elements of Architecture\u00a0<\/em>(2016, Routledge).<\/p>\nBj\u00f8rnar Olsen<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Dr Bj\u00f8rnar Olsen is professor in archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religion and Theology, at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Troms\u00f8. His research interests include contemporary archaeology, memory, thing theory and S\u00e1mi studies, and he as published widely on these matters. His latest books are \u201cIn Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects\u201d (2010), Persistent Memories: Pyramiden \u2013 a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic (2010, with E. Andreassen and H. Bjerck), Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012, with M. Shanks, T. Webmoor and C. Witmore), and Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aestehtics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014, editor with \u00de\u00f3ra P\u00e9tursd\u00f3ttir). Bj\u00f8rnar is director of the current projects Object Matters and Unruly Heritage (together with \u00de\u00f3ra P\u00e9tursd\u00f3ttir), both funded by the Norwegian Research Council.\u00a0bjornar.olsen@uit.no<\/a><\/p>\nEwa Domanska<\/h2>\n