Advisers and Contributors Team, in Baghdad, Iraq She has contributed to Ancient Europe 8000 b.c.–a.d 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (2004) and to publications addressing Early and Late La Tène settlement in Bavaria, Germany Renee McGarry is a student in the Ph.D program in art history at the City University of New York Graduate Center Her research interests include Aztec sculpture of the natural world and religious manuscripts from the postConquest period Paul McKechnie, D.Phil., is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand He is the author of First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church (2002) and Outsiders in the Greek Cities in the Fourth Century b.c (1989) ix wrought Silver Jewelry and Metalwork (4th ed., 2007), Silver Masters of Mexico: Héctor Aguilar and the Taller Borda (1996), and Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance, a catalog for a traveling exhibit (2002–2004) Julian M Murchison, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Millsaps College His work in cultural anthropology examines the intersections of medicine and religion in East Africa He recently published a chapter examining stories about a cure for HIV/AIDS in Borders and Healers (2005) Caryn E Neumann, Ph.D., teaches history in Ohio Wesleyan University’s Black World Studies Department She is a former managing editor of the Journal of Women’s History John M McMahon, Ph.D., teaches at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where he directs the classics program He is author of Cave Paralysin: Impotence, Perception and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius (1998) and numerous articles on the intersection of ancient literature and natural history His most recent work includes nine entries in the forthcoming Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2006) Emily Jane O’Dell, is a Ph.D candidate at Brown University and has taught at Brown University in both the Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies and the Department of Literary Arts She has been the chief epigrapher of the Cairo-Brown University Abu Bakr Epigraphic Survey in the western cemetery of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, for the past five years Jianjun Mei, Ph.D., teaches the history of science and technology at the University of Science and Technology Beijing He is the author of Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang: Its Cultural Context and Relationship with Neighbouring Regions (2000) Simon O’Dwyer is founder and researcher for Prehistoric Music Ireland, author of Prehistoric Music of Ireland and prehistoricmusic.com, and contributor to The Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland and The Encyclopedia of Ireland He has published four papers for the International Study Group on Music Archaeology James E Meier, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Central Florida Community College He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African History and Culture (2005) Francesco Menotti, Ph.D., is a lecturer in European prehistory at the Institute of Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Switzerland He is the author of Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe (2004) Melissa Moore Morison is associate professor of classics and classical archaeology at Grand Valley State University She has extensive experience in archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, and the United States Her research interests include Roman provincial archaeology, Greek and Roman pottery, and ceramic technology Penny Morrill, Ph.D., teaches pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican art at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland She has an essay, “The Queen of Heaven Reigns in New Spain: The Triumph of Eternity in the Casa del Deán Murals,” in a Brill anthology, Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America (2006) She has authored several books on modern Mexican silver: Mexican Silver: 20th Century Hand- Penelope Ojeda de Huala is a Ph.D candidate in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she studies pre-Columbian to contemporary art of Latin America Her research focus is Guatemala and Peru, particularly the enduring thoughts and practices of indigenous cultures as manifested in art Michael J O’Neal, Ph.D., is a writer who lives in Moscow, Idaho He is a frequent contributor to reference and educational books, including Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors (1999), The Crusades (2005), and America in the 1920s (2006) Dianne White Oyler, Ph.D., teaches African history at Fayetteville State University She is the author of The History of the N’ko Alphabet and Its Role in Mande Transnational Identity: Words as Weapons (2005) as well as articles in the refereed journals Research in African Literature, the Mande Studies Journal, and the International Journal of African Historical Studies Katie Parla is an art historian and archaeological speleologist working in Rome and Naples as a docent leading didactic seminars of archaeological sites She consults for the History