notes on contributors xi
Molly Greene is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.
She is the author of A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern
Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) and Catholic Pirates
and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2010).
Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the
Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, where has taught since 1991.
His research in Greece, Italy, and Thailand has addressed the social and political
impact of historic conservation and gentrification, the dynamics of nationalism,
gender, and bureaucracy, and the ethnography of knowledge among artisans and
intellectuals.
Cecily J. Hilsdale is Assistant Professor of Art History at McGill University in
Montreal, and specializes in the arts of Byzantium and the wider Mediterranean
world. Her research focuses on diplomacy and cultural exchange, in particular the
circulation of Byzantine luxury items as diplomatic gifts as well as the related
dissemination of eastern styles, techniques, iconographies and ideologies of impe-
rium. She is the author of Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Ray A. Kea is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, where
he has taught African and World History since 1991. He received his doctorate from
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature and co-director of the Center for
Mediterranean Studies (mediterraneanseminar.org) at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. She is the author of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old
French Literature (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006) and numerous
essays in medieval French, Mediterranean, and world literatures (ucsc.academia.edu/
SharonKinoshita).
Karla Mallette is Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of
Michigan. She is author of European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) and co-editor of A Sea of
Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2013).
Elizabeth Ann Pollard is Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University,
where she teaches courses in Roman history, historiography of witchcraft, and world
history. She has published articles exploring images of witches in Roman art, Roman-
Indian trade, and the impact of world historical models on traditional Greek and
Roman history. She is currently working on a book entitled Women and Witchcraft
Accusation in the Roman World.
Nicholas Purcell has been Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of
Oxford since 2011. He works on ancient, especially Roman, social, cultural and
economic history. He is joint author, with Peregrine Horden, of The Corrupting Sea
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), and has also worked on a number of other aspects of
Mediterranean history.