Advisers and Contributors Deborah N Carlson, Ph.D., teaches in the Nautical Archaeology Program of the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University She also directs the Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s shipwreck excavation of a Roman marble carrier off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kizilburun and is preparing the fi nal publication of the Classical Greek ship excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at nearby Tektas Burnu Jeffrey S Carnes is associate professor of classics at Syracuse University He is the author of The Uses of Aiakos: Pindar and the Aiginetan Imaginary (forthcoming) as well as articles on Greek lyric poetry, gender studies, literary theory, and Plato Julia Marta Clapp is pursuing her doctorate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Her research interests include modern and pre-Columbian Latin American art Wendy E Closterman, Ph.D., teaches ancient history and Greek at Bryn Athyn College Her research focuses on Athenian burial and funerary ritual She is the author of “Family Members and Citizens: Athenian Identity and the Peribolos Tomb Setting” in Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and Burial, Family and State in Classical Athens, edited by C Patterson (forthcoming) Leah A J Cohen is an independent writer and editorial consultant with a master’s degree in geography from the University of Florida She specializes in Africa area studies and food security She was a senior author for the Encyclopedia of African History and Culture, volumes and (2005) John Collis is professor emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, where he taught for over 30 years He has had a major role in the development of university and professional training in archaeology in Britain, and is secretary of the European Association of Archaeologists’ Committee on Training and Education He is author of several books and excavation monographs, including Digging Up the Past (2004) and The Celts: Origins, Myths and Inventions (2004) Constance A Cook, Ph.D., directs the Asian Studies program and teaches Chinese language and literature courses at Lehigh University She is the author of Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey (2006) and coeditor of Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China (1999) Susan Cooksey, Ph.D., is the curator of African art, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Justin Corfield, Ph.D., teaches history and international relations at Geelong Grammar School, Australia He is the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Cambodia (2003) and vii has written extensively on Asia, Australia, and European colonial history James A Corrick, Ph.D., is a full-time editor and writer with 25 books to his credit His most recent titles are The Early Middle Ages (2006), The Byzantine Empire (2006), and The Renaissance (2007) Arden Decker is a Ph.D candidate in the history of art at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Her research interests include Mesoamerican art as well as modern and contemporary art of Mexico Leo Depuydt, Ph.D., teaches Egyptology at Brown University and is curious about everything relating to ancient Egypt in its Near Eastern and Mediterranean context, especially the area’s languages and history He wrote Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt (1997) and The Other Mathematics: Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General (2007) Haig Der-Houssikian, Ph.D., is professor emeritus (2003), linguistics, at the University of Florida, Gainesville His research and publication interests are in morphology, Creolization, and sub-Saharan Africa Christine End, M.A., works on the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Her main interests of research are Middle Kingdom funerary iconography, material culture, burial practices, and mummification As a researcher and illustrator, her work has appeared in Egyptological publications and documentaries Linda Evans, Ph.D., specializes in ancient Egyptian art at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia She recently completed her doctoral dissertation on the representation of animal behavior in Egyptian tomb paintings and has published several papers on the role and depiction of animals in the ancient world She has also contributed chapters to Egyptian Art: Principles and Themes in Wall Scenes (2000), The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2004), Egypt: The Land and Lives of the Pharaohs Revealed (2005), and Historica (2006) Stephen M Fabian, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and currently teaches seminars on religion, myth, and ritual at Princeton University He is the author of Space-Time of the Bororo of Brazil (1992), Clearing Away Clouds: Nine Lessons for Life from the Martial Arts (1999), and Patterns in the Sky: An Introduction to Ethnoastronomy (2001) Erin Fairburn is a graduate student in the Department of Egyptology and Western Asian Studies at Brown University She has contributed to The City and Urban Life (forthcoming) Alessia Frassani is a Ph.D candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Her research interests in-