1. Elizabeth Greene
   

Elizabeth Greene is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her research interests include the ancient economy, maritime connectivity, and archaeological ethics. Currently she is involved in the study of Archaic and early Classical shipwreck and harbor sites off the Turkish coast, including the final publication of a 6th-century BCE shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu. Her research considers archaeologically visible evidence for the mechanisms of seaborne trade and exchange. Greene’s interest in the Mediterranean maritime environment extends to legal and ethical issues associated with the excavation and preservation of submerged material in light of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

1. Morag Kersel
   

Professor Kersel is an archaeologist with a doctorate from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a master of Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age of the eastern Mediterranean and Levant, cultural heritage protection, the built environment, object biographies, museums, and archaeological tourism. Her work combines archaeological, archival and oral history research in order to understand the efficacy of cultural heritage law in protecting archaeological landscapes from looting. Currently she is co-director of the Galilee Prehistory Project and the Follow the Pots Project - tracing the movement of Early Bronze Age pots from the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan.

1. Justin Leidwanger
   

Justin Leidwanger received his PhD in the graduate group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. Over the past decade, he has been involved in fieldwork and museum-based research on land and in the waters off Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, and elsewhere. His studies focus on the role of seaborne commerce in the organization of the Roman economy. This experience in maritime archaeology led to his engagement with issues of ethical preservation and stewardship of underwater cultural heritage, as well as museum-building, education, and outreach in maritime communities around the Mediterranean and beyond. On these topics he has delivered presentations and published several recent articles, as well as co-organized panels and workshops with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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1. Ricardo Agurcia
   

Ricardo Agurcia has invested more than thirty years of work at the monumental site of Copan in Western Honduras. His work at Copan has taken him in two different but related directions, one of them crucial to the recovery and understanding of the past (archaeological excavations since 1976) and the other paramount to guaranteeing that the past remains present (working to preserve and manage the archaeological resources of Copan for tourism and development). To implement some of these goals, he founded and now directs the Copan Association (www.asociacioncopan.org), a non-profit organization that promotes research and protection of Honduras’s patrimony, both cultural and natural. He holds degrees in anthropology and archaeology from Duke (B.A.) and Tulane (M.A.) Universities.