Transformative Practices in Archaeology: Empowering Communities and Shaping Sustainable Futures

Alok Kumar Kanungo, associate research professor at IIT Gandhinagar and adjunct associate professor at Flinders University, was born in Odisha and grew up in close contact with many indigenous communities of eastern and northeastern India. For the past two and half decades, Kanungo has researched field archaeology, ancient technologies, archaeometry, ethnoarchaeology, and indigenous archaeology, resulting in 16 books and more than 80 research articles and book chapters. He has been a Fulbright, Humboldt, British Academy, Rakow, ICG, Homi Bhabha, SPARC, ICHR, and Bead Society fellow and collaborated on an NSF-funded project. Kanungo has travelled and documented the rich heritage of the Nagas of Northeast India, and the Bondos and Juangs of Odisha, both in the field and in museums across Europe and the United Kingdom. Placing the Intellectual rights of indigenous people and/or crafts persons at the forefront of his research, he has worked in many domains of repatriation, and the overlapping spheres of anthropology, history, and archaeology. He has lectured in many universities and research institutes in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and the USA.

Claire Smith has a robust record of leadership in research, teaching and administration. Her academic life is driven by three passions: The first is to convey the sophistication of Indigenous cultures and the unique accomplishments of Indigenous Australians. The second is to contribute to global equity and to intellectually enrich archaeology by eroding the many barriers faced by scholars in low-income countries, especially those who do not normally publish in English. The third is to nurture the next generation of scholars who make a difference. Since 1990, she has conducted successful long-term research with Aboriginal communities in remote areas of Australia. Her leadership within a global context has been enacted as the twice (for 10 years)-elected President of the World Archaeological Congress and as Editor of the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd most highly cited and 3rd most downloaded work in Springer's Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Collections for 2014). She is the author/editor of 16 books and more than 220 publications in English, Spanish, Catalan, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese. In 2018, the Royal Anthropological Institute awarded Claire Smith the Lucy Mair Medal and Marsh Award for sustained research with Australian Aboriginal communities that has contributed to human dignity.

Nishaant Choksi received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Kyoto University in Japan. Currently, he is an assistant professor of social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, in Gujarat, India. His research areas include the study of script and writing systems, language and performance, the aesthetic component of language, cultural politics of heritage, and issues of self-governance and livelihood. Choksi examines these themes mainly in the Adivasi communities of India, with whom he has been conducting ethnographic research for almost two decades. His ongoing field projects include work with Bhili speakers in eastern Gujarat, Mundari speakers in Jharkhand, Santali speakers in West Bengal, and collaborative projects with communities in Northeastern India.

阿洛克·庫馬爾·卡農戈（Alok Kumar Kanungo）是印度理工學院甘地納加爾分校的副研究教授及弗林德斯大學的兼任副教授，出生於奧里薩邦，並與印度東部和東北部的許多原住民社區密切接觸。過去二十多年來，卡農戈專注於田野考古學、古代技術、考古計量學、民族考古學和原住民考古學的研究，出版了16本書籍和80多篇研究文章及書章。他曾獲得富布賴特獎學金、洪堡獎學金、英國學院獎學金、拉科夫獎學金、ICG獎學金、霍米·巴巴獎學金、SPARC獎學金、ICHR獎學金及珠子學會獎學金，並參與了一個由國家科學基金會（NSF）資助的項目。卡農戈曾旅行並記錄東北印度納加族及奧里薩邦的邦多族和朱昂族的豐富文化遺產，無論是在田野還是歐洲和英國的博物館中。他在研究中將原住民及工藝人員的智慧權利置於首位，並在許多回歸領域及人類學、歷史學和考古學的重疊範疇中工作。他曾在南亞、東南亞、歐洲和美國的多所大學和研究機構講授課程。

克萊爾·史密斯（Claire Smith）在研究、教學和行政管理方面擁有豐富的領導經驗。她的學術生涯受到三個熱情的驅動：第一是傳達原住民文化的複雜性及澳大利亞原住民的獨特成就。第二是促進全球公平，並通過消除低收入國家學者面臨的許多障礙，特別是那些通常不以英語發表的學者，來豐富考古學的智識。第三是培養下一代能夠帶來改變的學者。自1990年以來，她在澳大利亞偏遠地區的原住民社區進行了成功的長期研究。她在全球背景下的領導角色包括兩次（共10年）當選世界考古學大會的會長，以及擔任《全球考古學百科全書》（Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology）的編輯（該書在2014年是施普林格人文、社會科學和法律系列中引用次數第二高和下載次數第三高的作品）。她是16本書籍的作者或編輯，並在英語、西班牙語、加泰羅尼亞語、阿拉伯語、俄語、葡萄牙語和日語中發表了220多篇出版物。2018年，英國皇家人類學會授予克萊爾·史密斯露西·梅爾獎（Lucy Mair Medal）和馬什獎（Marsh Award），以表彰她在與澳大利亞原住民社區的持續研究中對人類尊嚴的貢獻。

尼沙安特·喬克西（Nishaant Choksi）在密西根大學獲得人類學博士學位，隨後在日本京都大學進行博士後研究。目前，他是印度古吉拉特邦印度理工學院甘地納加爾分校的社會科學助理教授。他的研究領域包括文字和書寫系統的研究、語言和表演、語言的美學成分、文化遺產的政治以及自我治理和生計問題。喬克西主要在印度的阿迪瓦西社區研究這些主題，並與這些社區進行了近二十年的民族誌研究。他目前的田野項目包括與古吉拉特東部的比利語使用者、賈爾坎德的門達里語使用者、西孟加拉的桑塔利語使用者以及與東北印度社區的合作項目。