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Silver Jewelry and Metalwork (4th edition, 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).
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.
Daniel S. Nicolae is a fellow at Edinburgh University’s Islamic
and Middle Eastern Studies Department. He is the coauthor
of Lehrbuch des Klassischen Syrisch (Harrassowitz, 2008).
Lisa Niziolek is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include
craft specialization, pottery production, pre-state societies
in the Philippines, Neolithic Ireland, and the geochemical
analysis of archaeological materials.
Tanure Ojaide, Ph.D., teaches at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, where he is the Frank Graham Porter Professor of Africana Studies. He specializes in African
and pan-African literatures, art, and folklore. In addition
to winning many literary prizes for his poetry, he has many
scholarly publications, including Poetic Imagination in Black
Africa (1996), Poetry, Performance and Art: Udje Dance Songs
of the Urhobo People (2002), and with Joseph Obi, Texts and
Contexts: Culture, Society, and Politics in Modern African Poetry (2004).
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.
Sophie Oosterwijk, Ph.D., is currently a lecturer in history
of art at the University of Leicester and honorary editor of
the journal Church Monuments. She has published widely on
medieval childhood, which was the subject of her Ph.D. thesis
and of her forthcoming monograph with Brepols Publishers.
Sharon Pruitt, Ph.D., currently teaches art history at East
Carolina University’s School of Art and Design. Her research
interest includes both African and African American art
and culture. She contributed essays to the following books:
African Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora
(Carolina Academic Press, 1993), Introduction to Kenya: An
Interdisciplinary Approach (Carolina Academic Press, 1993),
Issues in Contemporary African Art (International Society for
the Study of Africa at Binghamton University, 1998), Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art
(International Society for the Study of Africa at Binghamton
University, 1999), Black American Intellectualism and Culture
(JAI Press, Inc., 1999), A Century of African American Art:
The Paul R. Jones Collection (Rutgers University Press, 2004),
and Engines of the Black Power Movement: Essays on the Influence of Civil Rights Actions, Arts, and Islam (McFarland and
Company, Inc., 2007).
Babak Rahimi, Ph.D, is assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He
is the author of numerous articles on Iran, Iraq, and Turkey;
he is also completing a book project, titled Between Carnival
and Mourning: Muharram Rituals and the Rise of the Early
Modern Iranian Public Sphere, 1587-1666 C.E.
Andrew Rippin, Ph,D,, F.R.S.C., is professor of Islamic history and dean of the faculty of humanities at the University
of Victoria, Canada. He is author of Muslims: Their Religious
Beliefs and Practices (third edition, Routledge, 2005) and The
Qur’an and Its Interpretative Tradition (Ashgate, 2001).
Bradley Skeen, M.A., has taught at the University of Minnesota, Webster University, and Washington University. He is a
specialist in magic, religion, and philosophy in late antiquity
and has contributed to research in that field in Die Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, among other journals.
John Soderberg, Ph.D., is the managing director of the Evolutionary Anthropology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the links between religion
and urbanism in early medieval northern Europe.
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).
Ilicia Sprey, Ph.D., teaches Asian and European history
courses in the Department of History, Saint Joseph’s College,
Indiana. As a medievalist, she has written on intercultural,
diplomatic, social, and economic relations in the premodern
world and is the author of The Ancient World: Civilizations of
the Near East and Southwest Asia (M. E. Sharpe, 2007).
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.
Alan M. Stahl, Ph.D., is curator of numismatics at Princeton University. Among his numismatic publications are
The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz (Louvain-laNeuve, 1982), The Venetian Tornesello: A Medieval Colonial
Coinage (American Numismatic Society, 1985), and Zecca:
The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages (John Hopkins Univer-
