Richard Toon was director of the Museum Studies program at Arizona State University until he retired in 2019. He was especially interested in the way museums, which are not seats of formal learning, act as authorities and organize knowledge. For the past 18 years, he’s shared a writing and teaching partnership with Laurie Stone. His creative writing has appeared in such publications as Defunct, Superstition Review, and  Int/AR Journal and in such books as The Face in the Mirror, Downtown Film, Video and TV Culture 1975-2001, and Case Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press), in which he and Laurie Stone wrote about the discovery of the bones of Richard III in a carpark in Leicester UK.