clude the art and civilizations of ancient Oaxaca and issues
surrounding the cultural interaction between the Old and
New Worlds.
Markham J. Geller is professor of Semitic languages at Uni-
versity College London, in the Department of Hebrew and
Jewish Studies. He has recently published a text edition of cu-
neiform medical texts, Renal and Rectal Disease Texts, Baby-
lonisch-assyrische Medizin VII (2005).
J. J. George is working on his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York. His research area is pre-Colum-
bian art and architecture.
Wol f r a m Gr ajet z k i, Ph.D., wrote his dissertation at the
Humboldt University of Berlin and has taught Egyptology
there. He has excavated in Egypt and Pakistan and was
principal archaeologist and author for the online learning
project Digital Egypt for Universities (University College
London). He is preparing the catalogue of Egyptian coffi ns
in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. His publications
include Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt (2003) and Th e
Middle Kingdom in Ancient Egypt (2006).
Lyn Green, Ph.D., has taught at several Canadian universities
and for the Royal Ontario Museum. She has contributed to
several encyclopedias, including Th e Oxford Encyclopedia of
Ancient Egypt (2000) and the Encyclopedia of the Archaeology
of Ancient Egypt (1999) as well as Th e Royal Women of Ama-
rna (1996). Currently she is devoting her time to her duties as
president of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities,
which has over 400 members and subscribers internationally,
and to writing.
Angela Herren, Ph.D., teaches pre-Columbian art and archi-
tecture as an assistant professor in the Department of Art and
Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. A specialist on painted manuscripts from cen-
tral Mexico, she completed a 2005 dissertation entitled “Por-
traying the Mexica Past: A Comparative Study of Accounts
of Origin in Codex Azcatitlan, Codex Boturni, and Codex
Aubin.”
David B. Hollander, Ph.D., teaches ancient history at Iowa
State University. He is the author of Money in the Late Roman
Republic (2007).
Brooke Holmes, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of classics at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is at work
on a book about the symptom in early Greek medicine and
classical Greek literature.
Michael Allen Holmes is a freelance editor and writer who
recently contributed to Shakespeare for Students, 2nd edition
(2007). He has also written an unpublished novel.
John W. Humphrey, Ph.D., is professor of Greek and Ro-
man studies at the University of Calgary. A veteran of many
seasons of archaeological excavation in Turkey and Greece,
he is the author of Greek and Roman Technology: A Source-
book (1998, with J. P. Oleson and A. N. Sherwood) and
Ancient Technology (2006).Keith Jordan, M.Phil., is a Ph.D. candidate in pre-Columbi-
an art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York. He is currently fi nishing his doctoral dissertation,
entitled “Stone Trees Transplanted? Central Mexican Stelae
of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the Question of
Maya ‘Infl uence.’”Amr Kamel is an Egyptologist in the Rare Books and
Special Collections Library at the American University in
Cairo, Egypt.David Kelly is an instructor of English writing and literature
at Oakton Community College in Illinois. He has written
over 100 published literary analyses and wrote the instruc-
tor’s manual for the Exploring Poetry computer program. His
short fi ction has been published in Th e Rockford Review, Grub
Street, and Th e Iconoclast, among other places.Pa nag iotis I. M. Kousou lis, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Egyptology
at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the Univer-
sity of the Aegean. He is the author of Moving across Borders:
Foreign Relations, Religion and Cultural Interactions in the
Ancient Mediterranean (2007) and Ancient Egyptian Demon-
ology: Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the
Divine in Egyptian Magic (2007).Philippa Lang teaches ancient science and related subjects,
with research interests in ancient medicine and philosophy,
in the Classics Department of Emory University, Atlanta. She
is the editor of Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early
Roman Science, Apeiron special issue vol. 37 (2004).Russell M. Lawson, Ph.D., is associate professor of history and
chair of the Division of General Studies at Bacone College in
Oklahoma. He is the author of Science in the Ancient World
(2004), Th e Land between the Rivers: Th omas Nuttall’s Ascent
of the Arkansas, 1819 (2004), and Passaconaway’s Realm: John
Evans and the Exploration of Mount Washington (2002, 2004).Anne Mahoney, Ph.D., teaches Greek and Latin linguistics
and literature at Tuft s University. She is the author of Plau-
tus: Amphitryo (2004) and Roman Sports and Spectacles: A
Sourcebook (2001). She is also the editor of revised editions of
Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar (2001), Morice’s
Stories in Attic Greek (2005), and Bennett’s Essentials (2007).Susan Malin-Boyce, Ph.D., serves as deputy director of the
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