Acknowledgments
A great many people, including students, friends, and colleagues, played a role in bring-
ing this volume to publication, and it is a pleasure to thank them. Haze Humbert first
approached me with the idea of a single volume addressing the theme of ethnicity, and
she has continued to foster the project with complete professionalism from inception to
completion. Similarly, the staff at Wiley Blackwell, especially Allison Kostka, have been
unfailingly helpful and extremely competent.
To give the contributors a clearer sense of the threads, themes, and motifs running
through all of their chapters, we held a conference at the University of Pennsylvania in
early 2012. Not every contributor was able to attend, but the event helped to develop
some lines of common enquiry in ways that, I hope, have improved the volume as a whole.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the Center for Ancient Studies as well as the School of
Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania for subventing the conference and to
offer special thanks to Renée Campbell, whose administrative and organizational skills
made both the conference and this volume possible. My colleagues participated in the
conference and once again reminded me of what a blessing it is to work in a happy and
productive department.
Finally, it is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the editorial assistance of James McIn-
erney and Lucy McInerney, both of whom toiled over bibliographies and footnotes. As
it happens, by virtue of the circumstances of their birth and upbringing, they are both
particularly sensitive to nuances of ethnic identity. It is with deep gratitude, then, that I
dedicate this volume to them.