Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action Tapa dura - 2017

Laura McAtackney is Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management in the Archaeology Department at Aarhus University, Denmark. An archaeologist by training, her current research uses contemporary and historical archaeological approaches, and its heritage implications, to explore areas as diverse as material segregation and borders, the dark heritage of Long Kesh / Maze prison and female experiences of political imprisonment during the Irish Civil War. She created and maintains a website on female experiences of imprisonment during the Irish Civil War. She is secretary of CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group) and is a co-assistant editor of Post Medieval Archaeology.

Krysta Ryzewski is a historical archaeologist and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she co-leads the Anthropology of the City initiative. Her research explores the consequences of disruptive social and environmental pressures on past landscapes, communities, and material culture production. She currently conducts major research projects that focus on these relationships in urban North America (Detroit) and in the Caribbean (Montserrat). She also has a background in the materials science sub-field of engineering. Her research is funded by the NEH, NSF, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and other organizations. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University and MPhil in Archaeology and Heritage Management from the University of Cambridge.