Lisa J. Lucero is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been conducting archaeology in Belize for over 35 years and is the author of Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers and co-author of If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? and Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change.