Giovanni Bennardo is a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the department of Anthropology and the Cognitive Science Initiative at Northern Illinois University, USA. His research interests focus on linguistic, psychological, and anthropological perspectives to cognitive science. With six book publications to his credit, he also edited two special issues for World Cultures and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.
Victor de Munck is a Professor of Anthropology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His current research focuses on changes in love, marriage, and family cultural models as they affect decisions to marry and have children. He is also interested in the effect of technology on these important modes of intimacy as they have been central to the reproduction and maintenance of the species and the idea of a meaningful life. This project has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, Grant S-MIP-21-47 awarded to Victor C. de Munck (P-MIP-21-258).
Stephen Chrisomalis is a Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. His previous books include Numerical Notation: A Comparative History (Cambridge, 2010), Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger (Toronto, 2013), and Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History (MIT, 2020). He is President of the Society of Anthropological Sciences, a section of the American Anthropological Association.