Team, in Baghdad, Iraq. She has contributed to Ancient Eu-
rope 8000 b.c.–a.d. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World
(2004) and to publications addressing Early and Late La Tène
settlement in Bavaria, Germany.
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.
Paul McKechnie, D.Phil., is a senior lecturer in classics and
ancient history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He is the author of First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on
the Early Church (2002) and Outsiders in the Greek Cities in
the Fourth Century b.c. (1989).
John M. McMahon, Ph.D., teaches at Le Moyne College in
Syracuse, New York, where he directs the classics program.
He is author of Cave Paralysin: Impotence, Perception and
Text in the Satyrica of Petronius (1998) and numerous articles
on the intersection of ancient literature and natural history.
His most recent work includes nine entries in the forthcom-
ing Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2006).
Jianjun Mei, Ph.D., teaches the history of science and tech-
nology at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.
He is the author of Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Pre-
historic Xinjiang: Its Cultural Context and Relationship with
Neighbouring Regions (2000).
James E. Meier, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the Depart-
ment of Humanities and Social Sciences at Central Florida
Community College. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia
of African History and Culture (2005).
Francesco Menotti, Ph.D., is a lecturer in European prehis-
tory at the Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science,
Basel University, Switzerland. He is the author of Living on
the Lake in Prehistoric Europe (2004).
Melissa Moore Morison is associate professor of classics
and classical archaeology at Grand Valley State University.
She has extensive experience in archaeological fi eldwork in
Greece, Turkey, and the United States. Her research interests
include Roman provincial archaeology, Greek and Roman
pottery, and ceramic technology.
Penny Morrill, Ph.D., teaches pre-Columbian and early co-
lonial Mesoamerican art at Hood College, Frederick, Mary-
land. She has an essay, “Th e Queen of Heaven Reigns in New
Spain: Th e Triumph of Eternity in the Casa del Deán Mu-
rals,” 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 Hand-
wrought Silver Jewelry and Metalwork (4th ed., 2007), Sil-
ver Masters of Mexico: Héctor Aguilar and the Taller Borda
(1996), and Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the
Mexican Silver Renaissance, a catalog for a traveling exhibit
(2002–2004).Julian M. Murchison, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Millsaps College. His work in
cultural anthropology examines the intersections of medicine
and religion in East Africa. He recently published a chapter
examining stories about a cure for HIV/AIDS in Borders and
Healers (2005).Caryn E. Neumann, Ph.D., teaches history in Ohio Wesleyan
University’s Black World Studies Department. She is a former
managing editor of the Journal of Women’s History.Emily Jane O’Dell, is a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University
and has taught at Brown University in both the Department
of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies and the
Department of Literary Arts. She has been the chief epig-
rapher of the Cairo-Brown University Abu Bakr Epigraphic
Survey in the western cemetery of the Great Pyramids in
Giza, Egypt, for the past fi ve years.Simon O’Dwyer is founder and researcher for Prehistoric
Music Ireland, author of Prehistoric Music of Ireland and
prehistoricmusic.com, and contributor to Th e Encyclopedia
of Music in Ireland and Th e Encyclopedia of Ireland. He has
published four papers for the International Study Group on
Music Archaeology.Penelope Ojeda de Huala is a Ph.D. candidate in art history
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,
where she studies pre-Columbian to contemporary art of Lat-
in America. Her research focus is Guatemala and Peru, par-
ticularly the enduring thoughts and practices of indigenous
cultures as manifested in art.Michael J. O’Neal, Ph.D., is a writer who lives in Moscow,
Idaho. He is a frequent contributor to reference and educa-
tional books, including Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors
(1999), Th e Crusades (2005), and America in the 1920s (2006).Dianne White Oyler, Ph.D., teaches African history at Fay-
etteville State University. She is the author of Th e History
of the N’ ko Alphabet and Its Role in Mande Transnational
Identity: Words as Weapons (2005) as well as articles in the
refereed journals Research in African Literature, the Mande
Studies Journal, and the International Journal of African His-
torical Studies.Katie Parla is an art historian and archaeological speleolo-
gist working in Rome and Naples as a docent leading didactic
seminars of archaeological sites. She consults for the HistoryAdvisers and Contributors ix