Brian Howell is associate professor of anthropology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and the author of Christianity in the Local Context: Southern Baptist in the Philippines (Palgrave, 2007). His current research on short-term missions and Christian ethnography has appeared in Anthropological Theory, The Journal of Communication and Religion, Christian Scholar's Review, and The International Bulletin of Missionary Research.

Edwin Zehner holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program. He has published on missiological topics in Missiology, Anthropological Quarterly, Social Compass, and the forthcoming Evangelical Missiological Society book, Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions: Doing it Right! (William Carey Library, 2008).