James Andrew Whitaker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi and an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana. He is the coeditor (with Mark Harris) of Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America, (with Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Guillaume Odonne) Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas: A Perspective from Historical Ecology, and (with Matthias Lewy and Tarryl Janik) of Sorcery in Amazonia: A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault.

Andrew N. Wegmann is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. He is the author of An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World and coeditor (with Robert Englebert) of French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875, which won the Wilson Prize for Canadian History. He is also coeditor of the journal History of Africa.

Shawn P. Lambert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on community-engaged archaeology at late precontact and historic sites in the American southeast, with a special focus in the archaeology of enslavement. He is the coeditor (with Bretton T. Giles) of New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery and (with Giles and J. Grant Stauffer) of Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas.