Acknowledgments
Department Grants Officer, and the Anthropology
Staff: Peggy Slaven, Barbara Raney, Royce McClel-
lan, Eddie Ng, Tim Gilbert and Lisa Dietz. Their
help has been most necessary for the continued
work of EWIC.
Tracy Smith completed three years as EWIC
Research Assistant in the Spring of 2004 with out-
standing dedication. Bettina Schneider stepped in
as EWIC Research Assistant most effectively in the
fall of 2004. Jerry Lee trouble shot all our computer
problems for over a year until he graduated in the
Spring of 2004 when Andrey Dub took on that crit-
ical role. The number of undergraduate students
working as Interns on the Scholars and Scholarship
Project, to be published in a future EWIC volume,
has increased. Nancy Wan, Monica Garcia, Fatima
Naseem Malek, Rhyen Coombs and Tony Beukers –
all of whom began working between January and
Fall of 2002 – were joined by Marya Osucha, Emily
Rostel, Monique Salas and Michelle Sandhoff in
the Winter of 2003. Paulina Medeiros Tederer,
Andrea McNees, Cristeta Shope, and Eva Brown
joined in the Spring of 2004 followed, in the Sum-
mer of 2004, by Megan Fowler and Mary Beth
Lansom. Fifteen undergraduates making a commit-
ment of up to three years of work to ascertain all
the Ph.D. dissertations carried out on topics related
to women and Islamic cultures and to do a detailed
analysis of the topics and researchers is rather
unusual and quite admirable. I have been impressed
and humbled by their energy and commitment.
Each of the Associate Editors have been sup-
ported by their institutions and paid assistants.
Julie Peteet had the assistance of Leslie French,
Whitney Gifford and Maryam Mirriahi who
helped with her editorial work. Peteet is grateful for
the support of the University of Louisville College
of Arts and Sciences and Sharon O’Bryan, her sup-
port staff.
Seteney Shami would particularly like to thank
Laleh Behbehanian and Tina Harris for research
and administrative assistance, particularly in set-
ting up systems to manage the flow of information
and email traffic. Mary Ann Riad and Elissa Klein
then joined the project. Shami is particularly grate-
ful for the work of Laura Bier in diversifying the
pool of invited authors, tracking authors and even
reading some entries. Maria Todorova and Lucine
Taminian were most helpful in suggesting authors.As we send Volume II of The Encyclopedia of
Women and Islamic Culturesto press, we take the
time to respectfully and gratefully acknowledge
those who have contributed to its ongoing produc-
tion. We continue to be indebted to Brill for its
investment in what has turned out to be a much
larger and longer-lived project than any of us antic-
ipated when EWIC was first conceived in 1994.
Sam Bruinsma, the Business Unit Manager for
History and Olaf Köndgen, the Islamic Studies
Editor at Brill, have gone out of their way to pro-
vide support for EWIC, including adding the staff
support services of Ingrid Heijckers who has signif-
icantly improved the efficiency of EWIC produc-
tion. Isabella Gerritsen has loyally worked as
EWIC’s traffic director at Brill since 2001, manag-
ing correspondence and the flow of articles be-
tween authors, editors, and Brill. Margaret Owen
has done a magnificent job as Copy Editor.
At the University of California, Davis, Dean of
Social Sciences Steven Sheffrin offered EWIC and
my other research projects a new server for our web
work and web page (http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic).
Dean of Graduate Studies Jeffrey Gibeling kindly
committed a new three-year work study grant for
the EWIC research assistant. Vice Chancellor for
Research Barry Klein was helpful in processing the
new Ford Foundation grant, as was the Director of
Sponsored Programs, Ahmad Hakim-Elahi. M. R. C.
Greenwood, University of California Provost and
Senior Vice President, and her staff played a vital
role in working through contract details of the Ford
Foundation grant. Much of the grant development
could not have proceeded without the incredible
efficiency and diligence of Leanna Sweha, UC
Davis Contracts and Grants Officer, who worked
throughcontract and subcontract details, and Matt
Nguyen who stepped in when Leanna was away
from the office. I am also indebted to Sandy Nixon
and Kathy Haas in Accounting for processing the
larger budget and reporting issues.
The computer expertise of Minh Nguyen from
the Dean’s office and the support of Assistant Dean
Steven Roth and Lissa Torfi were important at cru-
cial moments. In the Anthropology Department at
UC Davis, Nancy McLaughlin, the Managerial
Staff Officer, has worked hard to supervise my
EWIC grants and the EWIC office, assisted
valiantly by Candy Cayne Clark, the Anthropology