Laura Coltofean-Arizancu Editor

Laura Coltofean-Arizancu is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a former museum curator at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu (Romania, 2012-2018). She has written a biography of the Hungarian female archaeologist Zsófia Torma (1832-1899). Within the history of archaeology, she has especially focused on Hungary and Romania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, researching topics such as interdisciplinarity, nationalism, female archaeologists, social and academic networks, archaeological knowledge production, transfer and exchange, archaeological photography, and the history of museums and archaeological collections. Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), an institution she joined in 2012 after sixteen years at Durham University (UK). She has been researching the history of archaeology for two decades. Her more than a hundred publications on the history of archaeology have focused on nationalism and imperialism (e.g., A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology, 2007; Archaeology and Nationalism in Europe, edited with Tim Champion in 1996, republished in 2015), gender, interdisciplinarity, archaeological tourism, social networks and geographies of knowledge, either in relation to particular countries, such as Spain and Britain, or to wider geographical areas.