Contributors to Volume II

Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Christine Caldwell Ames is Professor of Medieval European History at the University of South Carolina.

T. H. Barrett is Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Sheila S. Blair is Norma Jean Calderwood Professor ofIslamic and Asian Art (Emerita) at Boston College.

Sara M. Butler is King George III Professor in British History at Ohio State University.

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Nicola Di Cosmo is the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.

Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History at the American University of Beirut.

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, and a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

John France is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University.

Wolfgang Gabbert is Professor of Development Sociology and Cultural Anthropology at Leibniz University, Hannover.

Matthew S. Gordon is Professor of Middle East and Islamic History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

John Haldon is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Bret Hinsch is Professor of History at Fo Guang University, Taiwan.

Hitomi Tonomvra is the Director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

Richard W. Kaeuper is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

Christian Lange holds the Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Utrecht.

Peter Lorge is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Mitchell B. Merback is Arnell and Everett Land Professor in the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity Hall.

Morten Oxenboll is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jürgen Paul is Emeritus Professor in the Orientalisches Institut at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

David Potter is Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Kent.

Martin Repp is a Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg.

Andrew K. Scherer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

Ute Schüren is a cultural anthropologist and specialist in Mesoamerican Studies in the Department of History at the University of Münster.

Teresa Shawcross is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

Jonathan Karam Skaff is Professor of History and Director of International Studies at Shippensburg University.

Hannah Skoda is Tutorial Fellow in History at St John's College, Oxford.

David Spafford is Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Susanna A. Throop is Associate Professor and Department Chair of History at Ursinus College.

Anders Winroth is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of History at Yale University.

Don J. Wyatt is the John M. McCardell, Jr Distinguished Professor of History at Middlebury College.

Harriet Zurndorfer is a Fellow at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.