The founder and Director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy and the Editor-in-Chief of ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture.

Dr. Carlson is a Ph.D radio and extragalactic astronomer and also a trained archaeologist. He is Adjunct Professor in the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland, teaching a course called "In Search of Ancient Astronomies." He is a specialist in Native American astronomy, with a focus on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly of the Maya and highland Mexican cultures. For a brief introduction to his work, please see "America's Ancient Skywatchers" in the March 1990 issue of National Geographic Magazine. You can reach him at tlaloc at umd.edu

Dr. Dearborn, currently a research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, has held positions at the Copernicus Institute in Warsaw, the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology, and Steward Observatory in Tucson. He has worked extensively in astrophysics (nucleosysnthesis, stellar evolution, and astro-particle physics), archaeoastronomy (research on the Inca as well as editing the newsletter and journal), nuclear weapons design and testing, and re-entry vehicle flight testing. He is now the principal investigator on a Strategic Initiative to develop a three-dimensional stellar evolution and structure code for astrophysical research in a massively parallel environment. He has received twp Dudley awards for research in the History of Astronomy, three Weapons Recognition of Excellence awards from the DoE and was the 1998 Shelby Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. You can contact Dave at ddearborn at llnl.gov.

After graduating in Mathematics from Cambridge University and obtaining a D.Phil in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford, Professor Ruggles worked for some years as a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology at University Cardiff, Wales, before moving to the University of Leicester in 1982. At Leicester he lectured in Computer Science for a number of years before moving into the School of Archaeology and Ancient History. Although his background is diverse, Professor Ruggles has worked for many years on astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland, and he has strong interests in theoretical and methodological issues in archaeoastronomy. Professor Ruggles now holds the title of Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the University of Leicester, the first and only chair of its kind in the world. For more information about his work, please visit his web collection of archaeoastronomy imagery and curricular materials. You can contact him at rug at le.ac.uk.

Dr. McCluskey also is the contact person for editorial contributions and is the Book Reviews Editor for our publications. Dr. McCluskey has a Ph.D in the History of Science and is a Professor at West Virginia University, teaching courses on Medieval Europe, History of Science, and astronomies of traditional cultures. He currently is spending a year conducting research at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. For more information about his work, please visit his personal website. You can contact him at scmcc at wvu.edu.

Constance McCluskey is not an archaeoastronomer, other than what little she has learned by osmosis from her husband, Steve. However, she has had some experience working with professional journals, having been Assistant Production Editor for EKISTICS (the science of human settlements) many years ago while living in Athens, Greece. She also briefly assisted the editor of the current bibliography of ISIS with some proofreading while Steve was obtaining his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. She is glad to be assisting the four editors with some of the production work for this important journal. You may contact her at archaeoastronomy at verizon.net .

Alane L. Alchorn is a writer/editor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research interests include the study of ancient astronomies in their respective cultural contexts, most particularly the field of archaeoastronomy. At present, she is researching Mound Builder sites, earthworks erected by ancient Native Americans who populated what has become the central United States. Her previous research efforts focused on Andean astronomy -- before, during, and following the era of the Inca Empire. She holds a B.A. in Mass Communication (the combination of journalism and publications production) and an M.A. in the History of Science. Both degrees were earned at California State University Hayward. Alane is a member of the international Society for Technical Communication. You can contact her at aalchorn at llnl.gov .

Tania Ruiz holds a degree in Astrophysics from Harvard University with an (unofficial) minor concentration in archaeology. She also received fieldwork training in archaeological excavation from the University of Leeds in the UK. Tania presently works for the National Space Centre as a writer, Space Communications webmaster and media contact. Although she is one-quarter Aztec by heritage, her interest and education in archaeoastronomy is in megalithic studies. She can be reached at ormophile at hotmail.com .