Wanni W. Anderson is adjunct professor emerita of anthropology at Brown University. She is author of The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest and coauthor of Kuuvangmiit Subsistence and Life at Swift Water Place. With Douglas D. Anderson, she was awarded the 2015 Richard A. Baenan Award from the Northwest Alaska Native Association for their contributions to Arctic research.

Douglas D. Anderson is professor emeritus of anthropology and director of the Laboratory for Circumpolar Studies in the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University. He has conducted archaeological and anthropological research in Northwest Alaska since 1960. In addition to numerous articles, he has authored Beach Ridge Archeology of Cape Krusenstern, Onion Portage, and The Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska over the Past Millennium and coauthored Kuuvangmiit Subsistence and Life at Swift Water Place.