Kerry Hull is a Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. His academic interests include Maya linguistics and anthropology, Ch’orti’ Mayan, Polynesian linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnobotany, ethno-ornithology, and Maya epigraphic studies. He has conducted linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeological fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. He has also carried out linguistic fieldwork on the Ua Pou dialect of Northern Marquesan and on the dialect used on the island of Raivavae in the Austral chain in French Polynesia.

Mark Wright is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in anthropology (with a subfield of specialization in Mesoamerican archaeology) from the University of California, Riverside in 2011, and his BA and MA in anthropology from UCLA (2003) and UC Riverside (2004). He has conducted linguistic and ethnobotanical fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize.