Elizabeth Arkush is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Comparative Center for Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her PhD at UCLA in 2005. Her field research has focused on late pre-Columbian societies of the Andean altiplano, and particularly pukaras or walled hillfort sites. She has published extensively on the archaeology of conflict, including her most recent book, War, Spectacle, and Politics in the Pre-Columbian Andes (Cambridge, 2022) and Hillforts of the Ancient Andes (2011), which received the SAA Scholarly Book Award in 2013.