Miriam Said is an art historian specializing in the art and architecture of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world in the first millennium BCE. She is interested in materiality studies, technologies of magic, gender, and the intersection of pop culture and antiquity. Her research has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She welcomes graduate students with interest in ancient art history, material culture and visual studies.

Billy Foshay is an artist who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Foshay uses virtual reality, the rendered images and video installation to theorize about the environments, situations, and apparatuses capable of inflicting a psychological vertigo. Through the conversion to a virtualized form, the familiar is made strange through the exaggeration of properties allowed by its digitality.

Glenna Lang (graphic design/illustration) has worked as a freelance illustrator for many years. Her illustrations appeared regularly in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. She has produced five children's books published by David R. Godine in addition to the award-winning Looking Out for Sarah with Charlesbridge Publishing. Her most recent book, Genius of Common Sense, was acclaimed as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and Smithsonian. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago ('72) and an MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('75). Lang has taught at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Framingham State College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tufts University.