viii Advisers and Contributors of Teaching in America: A Cross-Cultural Guide for International Teachers and Their Employers and the forthcoming Teaching Diverse and Urban Learners, and the recipient of Recognition and Key to the City of Boston His articles have appeared in several journals, including Phi Delta Kappan, Intercultural Education, Cultural Studies of Science Education, and School Science and Mathematics. He also has significant international educational experiences He teaches and provides professional development workshops in science education, urban education, and international and cross-cultural education ing M.A degrees in anthropology and political science, he is currently conducting archaeological fieldwork in Vietnam on the relationship between warfare and the rise of complex societies He is coauthor of “Social Violence and War” (with Lawrence Keeley) in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology (Elsevier Publications, 2007) Suhail Islam, Ph D., teaches world and comparative literature and Asian studies at Nazareth College of Rochester He wrote “Bengal Famine,” which appeared in The Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) A chapter entitled “The Wretched of the Nations,” written with Syed Hasssan, appears in the book Genocide, War Crimes, and the West: The Culture of Impunity (Zed Books, 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) Dolly Jørgensen is currently a Ph.D candidate in history at the University of Virginia She has worked for over 12 years in environmental engineering consulting and has researched environmental issues in the medieval period, including forestry management and urban sanitation Marcos Martinón-Torres, Ph.D., is lecturer in archaeological science at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London He specializes on the scientific analysis of archaeological remains from medieval and early modern metallurgical activities He has coedited Archaeology, History and Science: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials (Left Coast Press, 2007) Keith Jordan, ABD, 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.’” Laura Lee Junker, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago She specializes in the archaeology of historic period Southeast Asia, with archaeological projects in the Philippines, Laos, and Vietnam She is the author of Raiding, Trading and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms (University of Hawaii Press, 1999) and the coauthor of Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long Term Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Bashir A Kazimee, AIA, is professor of architecture at Washington State University He is the author of Place, Meaning and Form in the Architecture and Urban Structure of Eastern Islamic Cities with Rahmani (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) His collaborative project “Sustainable Development: A Comprehensive Urban Regenerative Proposal for Pullman, Washington” was awarded the global IAA/UN Gold Medal by the International Academy of Architecture in 1996 Nam C Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago Hold- Christian Lange, Ph.D., is lecturer in Islamic studies at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh He is the author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Katelin Mason is a graduate student of Islamic studies with research interests in medieval intellectual history and philosophy She completed her M.A in Hinduism and Islam at George Washington University (2006) and a B.A in Middle East studies, also at GWU (2003) She currently works at Harvard University Fine Arts Library’s Aga Khan Collection in acquisitions for Islamic and European language material 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 Elizabeth Morán, Ph.D., teaches African, Mesoamerican, and Caribbean art history at Christopher Newport University She has recently received an NEH award to participate in the Summer Institute Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent, Oaxaca City, Mexico 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 Handwrought