Advisers and Contributors sity Press, 2000) He has also written extensively on medieval Venetian history Tom Streissguth is a freelance author, editor, and journalist who has published more than 70 nonfiction and reference books His most recent titles include Clay v United States, Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, Library in a Book: Hate Crimes, Eyewitness History: The Roaring Twenties, and the Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Ananda Cohen Suarez is a Ph.D student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, specializing in pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art history She is particularly interested in cross-cultural encounters, vernacular religious art, and manuscript production in the early colonial Americas Tina L Thurston, Ph.D., teaches archaeology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York’s Department of Anthropology She works regularly in northern Europe, studying the development of Iron Age and early medieval states and the meanings of continuity and change in cultural landscapes She is the author of Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict: State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age (Kluwer, 2001) and recently edited Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change (Springer, 2007) David W Tschanz, Ph.D., has degrees in history and epidemiology and works for Saudi Aramco Medical Services in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia He is the editor of the military history journal Cry “Havoc!” and was contributing editor of COMMAND magazine, specializing in medical military history He is currently at work on his seventh book David Vallilee is an independent scholar Julie-Ann Vickers is completing a Ph.D in medieval Italian history at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Her thesis looks at monastic forgery in southern Italy during the central middle ages Lawrence Waldron, M.F.A., is an associate professor and doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, specializing in non-Western fields of art history and culture He has presented and published various articles on the art and culture of the pre-Columbian Caribbean and Southeast Asia Alasdair Watson, B.A., is an Arabic linguist and translator He is currently studying for his master’s degree in translation studies at Edinburgh University, Scotland J Tia Wheeler is a Ph.D candidate at the University of St Andrews Her specialization within medieval Islamic history is interaction between the Middle East and Central Asia Shana Worthen, Ph.D., currently teaches history of technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Her essay “On Mills and Meaning” was published in Wind and Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed Steven A Walton (ACMRS, 2006) Bailey K Young is professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and co-director of the Walhain Castle Excavation Project in Belgium His recent publications include articles on Merovingian archaeology in Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D 1000 Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by Peter Bogucki and Pam Crabtree (Charles Scribners’ Sons, 2004); “Rites funéraires et stratégie politique: le cas des tombes royales”, in L Baray, ed., Archéologie des pratiques funéraires Approches critiques (Mt Beuvray Archaeological Center, 2004); and “Le Tennessee Valley Authority: de l’archéologie de sauvetage une politique de longue terme” in Jean-Paul Demoule (ed), L’archéologie préventive dans le monde Apports de l’archéologie préventive la connaissance du passée (La Découverte, 2007) Almaz Zewde, Ph.D., currently teaches education and social change and several interdisciplinary courses at Howard University, Department of African Studies She has authored book chapters and journal articles on African health and development issues Her research synthesizing works on African development discourse is due within the next few years