Maria Shaw was formerly Professor at the University of Toronto where she taught for more than 30 years until retirement. She specialises in many aspects of Minoan Crete and Greek archaeology in the Aegean area, is a leading expert on Minoan and Mycenaean wall painting and has intesets raging from Aegean-Egyptian interconnections to representations of natural landscapes in Aegean frescoes to the reconstruction of civic life in Crete.
Anne P. Chapin is Professor of art history and Archaeology at Brevard College, North Carolina where she specialises in the field of Bronze Age Aegean painting, particularly Minoan and Mycenaean and is actively involved in field research and excavation at Gournia, an important Minoan palace and town site on Crete.
