Nancy Gonlin is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who specializes in daily and nightly practices, household studies, and inequality. She is coeditor of Ancient Mesoamerica, and her publications include the coedited volumes Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica, Ancient Households of the Americas, Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica, and Archaeology of the Night. She is coauthor of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom and The Archaeology of Native North America, 2nd ed., and a professor of anthropology at Bellevue College in Washington.
Meghan E. Strong is adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University and research associate at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. An archaeologist and art historian, she specializes in sensory archaeology, performance, and perception within the cultures of ancient Egypt and the Near East. She is the author of Sacred Flames: The Power of Artificial Light in Ancient Egypt.
