Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Ph.D. Arizona 1992) is Associate Professor and Edward Bridge Danson Chair of Anthropology at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA). She is collaborating to develop a Native American Museums Studies program for NAU and MNA.. Hays-Gilpin’s current research, undertaken in collaboration with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, explores Hopi history and culture from prehistory to present through cross-media comparison of style and iconography, visual and verbal metaphors, and gender arrangements. Her most recent book, Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art, won the 2005 Society for American Archaeology Book Award.

George Gumerman, IV, (Ph.D., UCLA 1991) is chair of anthropology at Northern Arizona University. He is currently researching prehistoric food and culture on the north coast of Peru through the Moche Foodways Archaeological Project, centered around a large funerary feasting complex at the extraordinary site of El Brujo. Gumerman’s interest in public archaeology including the development of an interactive educational CD-ROM on the Grand Canyon and a Hopi culture curriculum for tribal schools in collaboration with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office.