Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK, and founding President of the International Urban Symposium-IUS. He founded and co-edits Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography. In the 1990s he pioneered the study of Legitimacy in Anthropology.
Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK, and co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the IUS. She Chairs the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology. Recently, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography with Italo Pardo.