Deborah N. Carlson, Ph.D., teaches in the Nautical Archae-
ology Program of the Department of Anthropology at Texas
A&M University. She also directs the Institute of Nautical
Archaeology’s shipwreck excavation of a Roman marble
carrier off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kizilburun and is
preparing the fi nal publication of the Classical Greek ship
excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at nearby
Te k t a s B u r nu.
Jeff rey S. Carnes is associate professor of classics at Syracuse
University. He is the author of Th e Uses of Aiakos: Pindar and
the Aiginetan Imaginary (forthcoming) as well as articles on
Greek lyric poetry, gender studies, literary theory, and Plato.
Julia Marta Clapp is pursuing her doctorate in art history
at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her re-
search interests include modern and pre-Columbian Latin
American art.
Wendy E. C loster ma n, Ph.D., teaches ancient history and
Greek at Bryn Athyn College. Her research focuses on Athe-
nian burial and funerary ritual. She is the author of “Family
Members and Citizens: Athenian Identity and the Peribolos
Tomb Setting” in Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and
Burial, Family and State in Classical Athens, edited by C. Pat-
terson (forthcoming).
Leah A. J. Cohen is an independent writer and editorial con-
sultant with a master’s degree in geography from the Univer-
sity of Florida. She specializes in Africa area studies and food
security. She was a senior author for the Encyclopedia of Afri-
can History and Culture, volumes 4 and 5 (2005).
John Collis is professor emeritus in the Department of Ar-
chaeology, University of Sheffi eld, where he taught for over
30 years. He has had a major role in the development of uni-
versity and professional training in archaeology in Britain,
and is secretary of the European Association of Archaeolo-
gists’ Committee on Training and Education. He is author of
several books and excavation monographs, including Digging
Up the Past (2004) and Th e Celts: Origins, Myths and Inven-
tions (2004).
Constance A. Cook, Ph.D., directs the Asian Studies pro-
gram and teaches Chinese language and literature courses
at Lehigh University. She is the author of Death in Ancient
China: Th e Tale of One Man’s Journey (2006) and coeditor of
Defi ning Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China (1999).
Susan Cooksey, Ph.D., is the curator of African art, Harn
Museum of Art, University of Florida.
Justin Corfield, Ph.D., teaches history and international
relations at Geelong Grammar School, Australia. He is the
co-author of Historical Dictionary of Cambodia (2003) and
has written extensively on Asia, Australia, and European co-
lonial history.James A. Corrick, Ph.D., is a full-time editor and writer with
25 books to his credit. His most recent titles are Th e Early
Middle Ages (2006), Th e Byzantine Empire (2006), and Th e
Renaissance (2007).Arden Decker is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art at the
Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research
interests include Mesoamerican art as well as modern and
contemporary art of Mexico.Leo Depuydt, Ph.D., teaches Egyptology at Brown University
and is curious about everything relating to ancient Egypt in its
Near Eastern and Mediterranean context, especially the area’s
languages and history. He wrote Civil Calendar and Lunar
Calendar in Ancient Egypt (19 97) a nd Th e Other Mathematics:
Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General (2007).Haig Der-Houssikian, Ph.D., is professor emeritus (2003),
linguistics, at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His re-
search and publication interests are in morphology, Creoliza-
tion, and sub-Saharan Africa.Christine End, M.A., works on the Giza Archives Project at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her main interests of re-
search are Middle Kingdom funerary iconography, material
culture, burial practices, and mummifi cation. As a researcher
and illustrator, her work has appeared in Egyptological publi-
cations and documentaries.Linda Evans, Ph.D., specializes in ancient Egyptian art at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She recently com-
pleted her doctoral dissertation on the representation of ani-
mal behavior in Egyptian tomb paintings and has published
several papers on the role and depiction of animals in the
ancient world. She has also contributed chapters to Egyptian
Art: Principles and Th emes in Wall Scenes (2000), Th e Encyclo-
pedia of Animal Behavior (2004), Egypt: Th e Land and Lives of
the Pharaohs Revealed (2005), and Historica (2006).Stephen M. Fabian, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and currently
teaches seminars on religion, myth, and ritual at Princeton
University. He is the author of Space-Time of the Bororo of
Brazil (19 92), Clearing Away Clouds: Nine Lessons for Life
from the Martial Arts (1999), and Patterns in the Sky: An In-
troduction to Ethnoastronomy (2001).Erin Fairburn is a graduate student in the Department of
Egyptology and Western Asian Studies at Brown University.
She has contributed to Th e City and Urban Life (forthcoming).Alessia Frassani is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York. Her research interests in-Advisers and Contributors vii