Douglas W. Maynard is the Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk and Clinical Settings. He has published not only in the ethnomethodological and conversation analytic literature, but also has conducted EMCA research in domains ranging from medical sociology to survey research. His research has been supported by the NIH, the National Cancer Institution, and the National Science Foundation.
John Heritage is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the sphere of social organization that Erving Goffman calls the "interaction order" and includes studies of epistemics and other topics in action formation and sequence organization in ordinary interaction, the study of political speeches, news interviews and presidential news conferences, and
doctor-patient interaction in a wide variety of practice settings.