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 Assistant Professor of Anthropology (by courtesy) at the University of Virginia. She studies cultural policy, cultural property destruction, and the looting and smuggling of antiquities. 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 examines the emergence of national symbols and icons in Italy’s longer historical entanglements of cultural elites, state officials, and tombaroli, or tomb robbers. In 2020 she published a co-edited volume with Fatma Müge Göçek, Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities (London: Routledge). She was formerly a research director of the MANTIS project at the University of Chicago (Modeling the Antiquities Trade in Iraq and Syria). Greenland’s research findings have been published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, Sociological Theory, and Theory and Society, among other outlets. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS). At the University of Virginia she is faculty co-director of the SWAMP workshop series (Sociological Working Group in Aesthetics, Meaning and Power).

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.