x notes on contributors
Boeotia Project, an interdisciplinary program investigating the evolution of settle-
ment in Central Greece. He has published over 20 books.
Cyprian Broodbank is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London, co-director of the Kythera Island Project,
and author of The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the
Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (London and New York: Thames
and Hudson and Oxford University Press, 2013).
Brian A. Catlos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of
Colorado at Boulder and Research Associate of Humanities at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. He works on ethno-religious identity, minority-majority
relations, and the economic, social, and institutional history of the Medieval Christian
and Islamic Mediterranean. See http://www.brianacatlos.com.
Fredric Cheyette is Emeritus Professor of History at Amherst College, where he
taught from 1963 to 2005. He is the author of Ermengard of Narbonne and the World
of the Troubadours (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001), and “The
Disappearance of the Ancient Landscape and the Climatic Anomaly of the Early
Middle Ages” in Early Medieval Europe, 16 (2008). He has worked on the history of
the medieval landscape since the 1970s.
Maria Couroucli (MA Cantab., PhD EHESS Paris, HDR Paris Ouest Nanterre) is
Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire
d’Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
and Director of Modern Studies at the Ecole française d’Athènes (Greece). She has
co-edited (with Dionigi Albera) Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean
(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2012).
Nicholas Doumanis teaches history at the University of New South Wales. His books
include Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean: Remembering Fascism’s Empire
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997) and Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence
and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012). He is working on a history of the eastern Mediterranean in the Wiley-Blackwell
History of the World series.
Steven A. Epstein is the Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval
History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous works on Genoa
and the wider Mediterranean and European contexts, including most recently The
Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Ruthy Gertwagen is Senior Lecturer in Maritime History and Marine Archaeology
at Haifa University and Oranim Academic College of the Byzantine and Medieval
Mediterranean. Her research and publications focus on: Venice and its maritime
empire; the Byzantine Empire; ships and shipping; trade and warfare; navigation;
ports and port towns; and marine environmental history.
Tehmina Goskar runs a heritage consultancy in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. She is also
Research Associate at Swansea University. Her areas of research are on medieval to
modern material culture and industry, particularly textiles and metals. She has published
on Mediterranean material culture, industrial heritage and historical copper.