Elsa Yvanez is an archaeologist specialised in the textile production of ancient Sudan and Nubia, in the chaîne opératoire and economic significance of spinning and weaving, as well as in the use of textiles for clothing and burial. After a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen (TexMeroe MSCA 743420), she conducted the Unravelling Nubian Funerary Practices project at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She is now leading the ERC project Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile at the University of Copenhagen (ERS StG 101039416).
Magdalena M. Wozniak is a researcher at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on textile production, cloth consumption and the role of textiles in the visual expression of identity in medieval Sudan. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2016-2019 she was awarded a POLONEZ post-doctoral grant from the National Science Centre, Poland and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme for the project “Nubian Textiles: craft, trade, costume and identity in the medieval kingdom of Makuria.