Don Kulick is an internationally recognized anthropologist and professor. He is the author of Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes and coauthor of Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement and Language and Sexuality. Kulick is known widely for his research in social anthropology, languages, and gender studies.
Anne Meneley is a cultural anthropologist and professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Professor Meneley earned her BA from McGill and both her MA and PhD from New York University. Some of her research interests are the Middle East, religion and world view, and histories of anthropology. She is the author of Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town and the coauthor of Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession.