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Cynthia Robin is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern. She is an archaeologist and project director who works with contemporary Maya to study the ancient Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Her research focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary people in ancient Maya society to show how ordinary people make a difference in their societies and were not the mere pawns of history or prehistory. She sees archaeology as a field that is both grounded in the study of the past and relevant for the world today. She is the author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan (2013), editor of Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community (2012), and co-editor of Gender, Households, and Society: Unraveling the Threads of the Past and the Present (2010).

Jorge Coronado is Professor of modern Latin American and Andean literatures and cultures in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Northwestern. He is affiliated with the Comparative Literary Studies Program, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, the Program in Critical Theory, and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program. He is the author of The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (2009) and Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (2018) and co-editor of Visiones de los Andes. Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región (2019). He is Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press book series Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas.