Smith is an archaeologist who research interests include the Aztecs, Teotihuacan, ancient and modern cities (planning, neighborhoods, scaling), and transdisciplinary social science research.

Sullivan is an ancient historian, who teaches and researches in the history of trans-regional exchanges between early Greece and the Near East and Egypt. He is also interested in the history of premodern warfare.

Hartung is a scholar of early Christianity and late antiquity. His most recent work focuses on liturgical poems and the formation of Christian imagination and identity in the eastern Roman empire in the fourth century.