United States, Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, Library in a Book: Hate Crimes, Eyewitness History: The Roaring Twenties, and the Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages.. student at
Trang 1sity Press, 2000) He has also written extensively on medieval
Venetian history
tom Streissguth is a freelance author, editor, and
journal-ist who has published more than 70 nonfiction and reference
books His most recent titles include Clay v United States,
Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, Library in a Book: Hate
Crimes, Eyewitness History: The Roaring Twenties, and the
Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Ananda Cohen Suarez is a Ph.D student at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, specializing in
pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art history She
is particularly interested in cross-cultural encounters,
ver-nacular religious art, and manuscript production in the early
colonial Americas
tina L Thurston, Ph.D., teaches archaeology at the
Univer-sity at Buffalo, State UniverUniver-sity of New York’s Department
of Anthropology She works regularly in northern Europe,
studying the development of Iron Age and early medieval
states and the meanings of continuity and change in cultural
landscapes She is the author of Landscapes of Power,
Land-scapes of Conflict: State Formation in the South Scandinavian
Iron Age (Kluwer, 2001) and recently edited Seeking A Richer
Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification,
Inno-vation and Change (Springer, 2007).
David W tschanz, Ph.D., has degrees in history and
epi-demiology and works for Saudi Aramco Medical Services
in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia He is the editor of the military
history journal Cry “Havoc!” and was contributing editor of
COMMAND magazine, specializing in medical military
his-tory He is currently at work on his seventh book
David Vallilee is an independent scholar.
Julie-Ann Vickers is completing a Ph.D in medieval Italian
history at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Her
thesis looks at monastic forgery in southern Italy during the
central middle ages
Lawrence Waldron, M.F.A., is an associate professor and
doc-toral candidate at the City University of New York, special-izing in non-Western fields of art history and culture He has presented and published various articles on the art and cul-ture of the pre-Columbian Caribbean and Southeast Asia
Alasdair Watson, B.A., is an Arabic linguist and translator
He is currently studying for his master’s degree in translation studies at Edinburgh University, Scotland
J tia Wheeler is a Ph.D candidate at the University of St
Andrews Her specialization within medieval Islamic history
is interaction between the Middle East and Central Asia
Shana Worthen, Ph.D., currently teaches history of
technol-ogy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Her essay
“On Mills and Meaning” was published in Wind and Water
in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed Steven A Walton (ACMRS, 2006).
Bailey K young is professor of history at Eastern Illinois
University and co-director of the Walhain Castle Excavation Project in Belgium His recent publications include articles on
Merovingian archaeology in Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D
1000 Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by Peter
Bogucki and Pam Crabtree (Charles Scribners’ Sons, 2004);
“Rites funéraires et stratégie politique: le cas des tombes
royales”, in L Baray, ed., Archéologie des pratiques funérai-res Approches critiques (Mt Beuvray Archaeological Center,
2004); and “Le Tennessee Valley Authority: de l’archéologie
de sauvetage à une politique de longue terme” in Jean-Paul
Demoule (ed), L’archéologie préventive dans le monde Ap-ports de l’archéologie préventive à la connaissance du passée
(La Découverte, 2007)
Almaz Zewde, Ph.D., currently teaches education and
so-cial change and several interdisciplinary courses at Howard University, Department of African Studies She has authored book chapters and journal articles on African health and de-velopment issues Her research synthesizing works on Afri-can development discourse is due within the next few years
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