?Clare T. Burke is an archaeologist specialising in the study and scientific analysis of ceramic material culture. Her PhD at the University of Sheffield focused on the chaîne opératoire and habitus as conceptual frameworks for understanding past crafting practices in relation to the production of Early Bronze Age ceramics from mainland Greece. She currently works at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna investigating prehistoric ceramics.
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood is a Professor of Anthropology at Oakland University and an Associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She organized and chaired the first two conference symposia on gender research in historical archaeology at the 1989 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in the First Joint Archaeological Congress in Baltimore, and at the 1989 Chacmool Conference in Calgary,Canada (proceedings published 1991). Professor Spencer-Wood’s early feminist theorizing was also published in the 1992 Southern Illinois University Conference volume. She subsequently wrote feminist articles published in Historical Archaeology and the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, as well as book chapters, including those in volumes she edited for Springer, entitled The Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes (co-edited with Sherene Baugher), and Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public.