viii Advisers and Contributors 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 University College London, in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies He has recently published a text edition of cuneiform medical texts, Renal and Rectal Disease Texts, Babylonisch-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-Columbian art and architecture Wolfram Grajetzki, 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 coffins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge His publications include Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt (2003) and The 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 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2000) and the Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (1999) as well as The Royal Women of Amarna (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 architecture 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 central Mexico, she completed a 2005 dissertation entitled “Portraying 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editor and writer who recently contributed to Shakespeare for Students, 2nd edition (2007) He has also written an unpublished novel John W Humphrey, Ph.D., is professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Calgary A veteran of many seasons of archaeological excavation in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 Sourcebook (1998, with J P Oleson and A N Sherwood) and Ancient Technology (2006) Keith Jordan, M.Phil., is a Ph.D candidate in pre-Columbian art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York He is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Stone Trees Transplanted? Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the Question of Maya ‘Influence.’” 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 instructor’s manual for the Exploring Poetry computer program His short fiction has been published in The Rockford Review, Grub Street, and The Iconoclast, among other places Panagiotis I M Kousoulis, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Egyptology at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University 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 Demonology: 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), The Land between the Rivers: Thomas 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 Tufts University She is the author of Plautus: 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 Regime Crimes Liaison Office, Mass Graves Investigation