Co-director Michelle Fabiani is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven. She is an interdisciplinary scholar that studies patterns of behavior in international and transnational crime with a focus on cultural heritage and cultural property crimes. In her largest project to date, Fabiani combined criminological theory as a framework for examining how contextual factors influence the beginning of the illicit antiquities supply chain - archaeological looting. It proposes a methodology for understanding which sites are most likely to be looted and in which contexts using spatiotemporal data from Lower Egypt in 2015 to 2017. Her current work focuses on developing the tools, methods, and data to mitigate and prevent crime as a means of capacity building. Fabiani’s research findings have been published in Global Crime, Arts, and Collections: A Journal for Museum Professionals, among others. She is also a co-organizer of the Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium and editor of the conference proceedings.

Co-director Fiona Greenland is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Professor of Anthropology (by courtesy) at the University of Virginia. She studies cultural policy, cultural property destruction, and the looting and smuggling of antiquities. Greenland directs the CURIA Lab Ukraine Conflict Observatory, an independent research project of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Her book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2021. It received the 2022 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Culture from the American Sociological Association. 

Elizabeth Chrun (Ph.D. University of Washington) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Prior to that, she was an FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in political science at McGill University. Her current research focuses on institutional failures and subsequent instances of institutional creation in the context of corruption, and scientific information design and dissemination. Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture, and has appeared in Business & Politics and the Annual Review of Resources and the Environment, among others. As a scientific information design specialist, she seeks to exploit the principles of good design to better communicate and disseminate scientific research findings to the academic community and to broader audiences. She is also the lead project researcher for the ECHRdb, an online platform that enables broad access to European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence data.