Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the Question of Maya ‘Influence.’” Laura Lee Junker, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Un
Trang 1of Teaching in America: A Cross-Cultural Guide for
Inter-national Teachers and Their Employers and the
forthcom-ing Teachforthcom-ing Diverse and Urban Learners, and the recipient
of Recognition and Key to the City of Boston His articles
have appeared in several journals, including Phi Delta
Kap-pan, Intercultural Education, Cultural Studies of Science
Education, and School Science and Mathematics He also
has significant international educational experiences He
teaches and provides professional development workshops
in science education, urban education, and international
and cross-cultural education
Suhail Islam, Ph D., teaches world and comparative literature
and Asian studies at Nazareth College of Rochester He wrote
“Bengal Famine,” which appeared in The Historical Companion
to Postcolonial Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
A chapter entitled “The Wretched of the Nations,” written with
Syed Hasssan, appears in the book Genocide, War Crimes, and
the West: The Culture of Impunity (Zed Books, 2004)
Dolly Jørgensen is currently a Ph.D candidate in history at
the University of Virginia She has worked for over 12 years
in environmental engineering consulting and has researched
environmental issues in the medieval period, including
for-estry management and urban sanitation
Keith Jordan, ABD, M.Phil., is a Ph.D candidate in
pre-Co-lumbian art history at the Graduate Center of the City
Uni-versity of New York He is currently finishing his doctoral
dissertation, entitled “Stone Trees Transplanted? Central
Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the
Question of Maya ‘Influence.’”
Laura Lee Junker, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department
of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and
an adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History
in Chicago She specializes in the archaeology of historic
period Southeast Asia, with archaeological projects in the
Philippines, Laos, and Vietnam She is the author of
Raid-ing, Trading and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine
Chiefdoms (University of Hawaii Press, 1999) and the
coau-thor of Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long
Term Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Bashir A Kazimee, AIA, is professor of architecture at
Washington State University He is the author of Place,
Mean-ing and Form in the Architecture and Urban Structure of
East-ern Islamic Cities with Rahmani (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003)
His collaborative project “Sustainable Development: A
Com-prehensive Urban Regenerative Proposal for Pullman,
Wash-ington” was awarded the global IAA/UN Gold Medal by the
International Academy of Architecture in 1996
nam C Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology
Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Hold-ing M.A degrees in anthropology and political science, he
is currently conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam
on the relationship between warfare and the rise of complex societies He is coauthor of “Social Violence and War” (with
Lawrence Keeley) in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology
(Else-vier Publications, 2007)
Christian Lange, Ph.D., is lecturer in Islamic studies at the
School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh He is the author
of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagina-tion (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
russell M Lawson, Ph.D., is associate professor of history
and chair of the Division of General Studies at Bacone
Col-lege in Oklahoma He is the author of Science in the Ancient World (2004), The Land between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall’s Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (2004), and Passaconaway’s Realm: John Evans and the Exploration of Mount Washington
(2002, 2004)
Marcos Martinón-torres, Ph.D., is lecturer in archaeological
science at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London He specializes on the scientific analysis of archaeo-logical remains from medieval and early modern
metallur-gical activities He has coedited Archaeology, History and Science: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials (Left
Coast Press, 2007)
Katelin Mason is a graduate student of Islamic studies with
research interests in medieval intellectual history and phi-losophy She completed her M.A in Hinduism and Islam at George Washington University (2006) and a B.A in Middle East studies, also at GWU (2003) She currently works at Har-vard University Fine Arts Library’s Aga Khan Collection in acquisitions for Islamic and European language material
renee McGarry is a student in the Ph.D program in art
history at the City University of New York Graduate Cen-ter Her research interests include Aztec sculpture of the natural world and religious manuscripts from the post-Conquest period
Elizabeth Morán, Ph.D., teaches African, Mesoamerican,
and Caribbean art history at Christopher Newport Univer-sity She has recently received an NEH award to participate
in the Summer Institute Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent, Oaxaca City, Mexico
Penny Morrill, Ph.D., teaches pre-Columbian and early
co-lonial Mesoamerican art at Hood College, Frederick, Mary-land She has an essay, “The Queen of Heaven Reigns in New Spain: The Triumph of Eternity in the Casa del Deán Murals,”
in a Brill anthology, Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America (2006) She has authored several books on modern Mexican silver: Mexican Silver: 20th Century Handwrought
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