Philip Jones is an author and historian based at the South Australian Museum, where he undertakes research on Aboriginal art, history and material culture, and on anthropological, photographic and expeditionary history. He has undertaken fieldwork with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert region and, more recently, with Warlpiri people of Yuendumu. His landmark book, Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers, won the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. He has an abiding interest in unlocking the histories of objects and their collectors.
Anna Kenny is an anthropologist based in Alice Springs, Central Australia. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the region since 1991 involving media, land and native title claims, and mining. She has been working on her PhD on Carl Strehlow's ethnographic work Die Aranda - und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Anna Kenny is interested in the social and cultural history and ethnology of inland Australia, and began researching the heritage of the Muslim cameleers in early 2001.