Giorgio Buccellati is Research Professor in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Department of History at UCLA. He founded the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, of which he served as first director from 1973 until 1983 and where he is now Director of the Mesopotamian Lab. He is currently Director of the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies (IIMAS) and of the Associazione per la Valorizzazione dell’Archeologia e della Storia Antica (AVASA).
From 1973 until her appointment as Emerita (2003), Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
taught in the Department of Art at California State University, Los Angeles. Since 2003 she has continued her research at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).