Channel and will appear in their 2007 series Cities of the Un-
derworld as an expert on underground Rome and Naples.
Marie Passanante is a doctoral candidate in the Department
of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown
University.
William H. Peck teaches at the College for Creative Studies,
Detroit, and the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He was for
many years the curator of ancient art at the Detroit Institute
of Arts and is at present a member of the Brooklyn Museum
excavations in Egypt at Karnak. He is the author of Drawings
from Ancient Egypt (1987) and numerous contributions to ref-
erence books and encyclopedias on the ancient world.
David Petechuk is a freelance writer specializing in educa-
tional texts focusing on the sciences, literature, and history.
Th e former director of publications for the health sciences at
the University of Pittsburgh, he is the author of Th e Respira-
tory System (2004), LSD (2005), and Health & Medical Issues
Today: Organ Transplantation (2006).
Mark Anthony Phelps is taking a leave aft er teaching con-
tinuously since 1994 (primarily at Drury University, in fi ve
diff erent departments) to fi nish his dissertation at the Uni-
versity of Arkansas entitled “Sewage from the Orontes: Ro-
man Elite Attitudes toward Ecstatic Religion in the 3rd and
4th centuries c.e.” Th is degree in ancient Mediterranean his-
tory augments his graduate degrees from Harvard and Johns
Hopkins in Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern languages
and cultures. His research interests refl ected in his writings
are widely eclectic, spanning Paleolithic to contemporary so-
ciety and including the disciplines of archaeology, linguistics,
cultural anthropology, physical geography, historical geogra-
phy, classical history, ancient Near Eastern history, medieval
history, modern history, religion, and biblical history.
Jen Piro is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropological archaeology
at New York University. Her dissertation research focuses on
the development of pastoral economies in Early Bronze Age
Tra nscaucasia.
Karen Radner, Ph.D., is lecturer in ancient Near Eastern
history at University College, London. She specializes in
the Assyrian Empire and is the author of Die neuassyrisch-
en Texte aus Tall Seh Hamad (2002), Das mittelassyrische
Tontafelarchiv von Giricano/Dunnu-sa-Uzibi (2004) and Die
Macht des Namens: Altorientalische Strategien zur Selbster-
haltung (2005).
Judith A. Rasson, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Me-
dieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (a
post-graduate American-accredited university). Her research
interests lie in southeastern Europe (especially the countries
of the former Yugoslavia) and focus on Neolithic and historic
archaeology and ethnographic material culture.Kelly-Anne Diamond Reed, Ph.D., teaches ancient Egyptian
history and archaeology at Villanova University’s Depart-
ment of History. She is investigating early Egyptian funerary
rituals and burial customs.Duane W. Roller is professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State
University. Trained as an archaeologist, he has over 30 years’
experience in fi eld archaeology in numerous Mediterranean
countries. He is the author of Th e Building Program of Herod
the Great (19 98), Th e World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene
(2003), and Th rough the Pillars of Herakles (2006) as well as
many other publications in history, classics, and archaeology.Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D., teaches philosophy at Los Angeles Val-
ley College. He specializes in Kantian epistemology, meta-
phy sic s , a nd e t h ic s , w it h empha si s on members of t he Fr ie sia n
tradition—Jakob Fries, Leonard Nelson, Rudolf Otto, Sir Karl
Popper, and others. Since 1996 he has been the publisher and
editor of the online philosophy journal Proceedings of the
Friesian School, Fourth Series.Edward M. W. A. Rowlands, M.Phil., has research interests
in Mycenaean political geography, trade, and religion.Lucas G. Rubin, Ph.D., develops master of science programs
for Columbia University. He was previously administrator of
the university’s Center for Archaeology, where he managed
multiple excavations and projects. His research and scholar-
ship have focused on fi res and fi refi ghters in ancient Rome.Michael M. Sage, Ph.D., teaches classics and ancient history in
the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati. His
main areas of study are historiography and military history.
He is the author of Cyprian: A Biography (1975) a nd War fare
in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook (19 9 6).Rick Schulting, Ph.D., is a lecturer in scientific and pre-
historic archaeology at the University of Oxford. His
current research interests lie in understanding the Meso-
lithic-Neolithic transition in western Europe, emphasizing
the use of radiometric dating and stable isotope analysis,
and in skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in ear-
lier prehistoric Europe.David R. Sear, a fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society
in London and the American Numismatic Society in New
York, has authored an extensive range of numismatic books
over the past four decades, aimed at collectors and students
of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coinage. He has
been a resident of Los Angeles for the past 25 years and op-
erates a research service authenticating ancient coinage. Hisx Advisers and Contributors