Kelly, Kenneth G. - Profile of this University of South Carolina Assistant Professor. Research interests include culture contact and change, transformation and the origin of complex societies, Africa, ethnohistory, and the Caribbean. - http://www.cas.sc.edu/ANTH/Faculty/KGKelly1/Kelly.html
Posnansky, Merrick - Brief profile of this University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus. Research interests include archaeology of state formation and urban growth in Ghana and Togo. - http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/staff/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1109879888&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&
Kusimba, Sibel - Northern Illinois University professor with research interests in prehistoric and historic African cultures. - http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/kusimba.htm
Trigger, Bruce - Brief profile of this McGill University Professor. Research interests include comparative study of early civilizations, history of archaeology, settlement archaeology; Egypt, Sudan, eastern North America. - http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/anthro/faculty/trigger.htm
Barham, Larry - Brief profile of this University of Bristol Lecturer. Research interests include middle stone age archaeology in central Africa. - http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Archaeology/staff/barham.html
Håland, Randi - Profile of this University of Bergen Professor. Research interests include ethno-archaeology of Iron working, specifically in Sudan and Ethiopia. - http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/haaland/index.htm
Holl, Augustine F.C. - Profile of this University of Michigan Professor. Research interests include the growth of complex social systems in West Africa and the Levant. - http://www.lsa.umich.edu/anthro/faculty_staff/holl.html
DeCorse, Christopher - Brief profile of this Syracuse University Associate Professor. Research interests include archaeological study of culture contact, continuity and change in West African societies. - http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/anthro/people/faculty/decorse.asp