Luke Eric Lassiter is professor of humanities and anthropology and director of the Graduate Humanities Program at Marshall University, where he is also a Distinguished John Deaver Drinko Academy Fellow. His books include The Other Side of Middletown, The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography, Doing Ethnography Today, and I'm Afraid of that Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis.
Eric I. Karchmer is a visiting assistant professor at China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan. He is also a trained practitioner of Chinese medicine, with more than 20 years of clinical experience. He is the author of Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine.
Dana E. Powell is associate professor in the Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, at Taipei Medical University (Taiwan). She is the author of Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation and has been a recipient of anthropological fellowships from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Cornell Univ. Society for the Humanities, and the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology.