Ayad, Ph.D., teaches graduate-level classes on Egyptian language and literature at the University of Mem-phis, where she is the assistant director of its Institute of Egyptian Art and A
Trang 1Cloisters and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
Mariam F Ayad, Ph.D., teaches graduate-level classes on
Egyptian language and literature at the University of
Mem-phis, where she is the assistant director of its Institute of
Egyptian Art and Archaeology Her main research interests
focus on the role of women in ancient Egyptian temple ritual
and the selection and transmission of funerary texts in post–
New Kingdom Egypt Her book on the God’s Wife of Amun
is under contract with Routledge
Heather D Baker, D.Phil., is a researcher at the University of
Vienna, Austria, specializing in Babylonian history, society,
and culture She has published widely on Babylonian and
As-syrian history and is writing a book to be titled Th e Urban
Landscape of First Millennium BC Babylonia.
Robin Barrow, Ph.D., FRSC, is professor of philosophy of
education at Simon Fraser University, Canada His most
recent books include Plato (2007) and An Introduction to
Moral Philosophy and Moral Education (2007) He is the
au-thor of Athenian Democracy (2001) and Greek and Roman
Education (1996).
László Bartosiewicz, Ph.D., D.sc., teaches archaeozoology at
the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (Hungary) and the
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) He is the author
of Animals in the Urban Landscape in the Wake of the Middle
Ages (1995) and principal author of Draught Cattle: Th eir
Os-teological Identifi cation and History (1997) and has published
more than 200 scholarly articles
Kirk H Beetz, Ph.D., emeritus, has published over two dozen
books and more than 900 articles His books span topics from
endangered mammal species to children’s literature,
includ-ing Explorinclud-ing C S Lewis’ “Th e Chronicles of Narnia” (2000)
His recent writings have focused on the history and culture
of ancient Japan
Craig G R Benjamin, Ph.D., teaches world and ancient
Eurasian history at Grand Valley State University He is the
coeditor of vols 2 (1998), 4 (2000), and 6 (2002) in the Brepols
Silk Roads Studies series and the author of Th e Yuezhi:
Ori-gin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria (2007).
Uff e Bergeton, Ph.D., is in the Ph.D program in the
Depart-ment of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of
Michigan He is the author of Th e Independence of Binding
and Intensifi cation (Ph.D dissertation, University of
South-ern California) and various articles on theoretical phonology
and syntax
Amy Hackney Blackwell has degrees in history from Duke
University and Vanderbilt University and a J.D from the
Uni-versity of Virginia Her books include Mythology for Dum-mies (2002), LSAT for DumDum-mies (2004), Th e Everything Irish History and Heritage Book (2004), and Essential Dictionary of Law (2004) She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of World Nations and Cultures (2006), Alternative Energy (2006), and Chemical Compounds (2006).
Christopher Blackwell, Ph.D., teaches classics at Furman
University He is the author of In the Absence of Alexander: Harpalus and the Failure of Macedonian Hegemony (1999)
and various protocols and soft ware applications for building digital libraries, and he serves as technical editor for the Cen-ter for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University
Amy Bogaard, Ph.D., teaches prehistory and archaeobotany
at the Department of Archaeology, University of
Notting-ham, United Kingdom She is the author of Neolithic Farming
in Central Europe (2004).
Peter Bogucki, Ph.D., is an archaeologist who is associate
dean for undergraduate aff airs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University He has studied prehistoric settlements in Poland and has a particular interest
in the spread of farming in Europe He is the author of Th e Origins of Human Society (1999) and the editor (with Pam J Crabtree) of Ancient Europe 8000 b.c.–a.d 1000: An Encyclo-pedia of the Barbarian World (2004).
Larissa Bonfante, Ph.D., professor of classics at New York
University, is the author of several books on Etruscan and early Roman culture as well as publications on ancient dress
and nudity, including The World of Roman Costume,
co-edited with Judith Sebesta (1994)
Charlotte Booth is a Ph.D student at the University of Wales,
Swansea, and teaches Egyptology for Birkbeck College and other institutions in the United Kingdom She is the author
of People of Ancient Egypt (2007), Th e Hyksos Period in Egypt (2005), and Th e Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt (2005)
Lisa R Brody, Ph.D., teaches Greek and Roman art history at
Queens College, City University of New York Her research interests include Greek iconography and cult, ancient lamps and their decoration, children in antiquity, and representa-tion of ethnicity in Greco-Roman art She compiled the
re-vised edition of David Sacks’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World (2005) and is author of Aphrodisias III: Th e Aph-rodite of Aphrodisias (2007).
David Brown, Ph.D., is researching the interactions of the
pre-Islamic astral sciences of Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Egypt, Iran, the western Semitic world, and China at the Free
University of Berlin He is the author of Mesopotamian Plan-etary Astronomy-Astrology (2000) and Th e Interactions of An-cient Astral Science (forthcoming).
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