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Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him its Kenyon Medal in 1995. Editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art, his other books include The Greeks in Asia; The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The Triumph of Dionysos; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009.

Dame Averil Cameron, professor of late antique and Byzantine history at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, was warden of Keble College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2010. Her books include Procopius and the Sixth Century, Arguing It Out, Byzantine Matters, and Dialoguing in Late Antiquity.

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. Her books include The Life of Musorgsky, Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme, The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin, and (with Gary Saul Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics.

Humberto Garcia is associate professor of English at the University of California, Merced, and the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840. His England Re-Oriented: How Asian Travelers from India Imagined the West, 1750–1820 is forthcoming.

Felix Girke, an anthropologist at the University of Konstanz Center for the Cultural Foundations of Social Integration, specializes on Myanmar and the Kara of southern Ethiopia. He is coeditor of Ethiopian Images of Self and Other; Kultur all inclusive: Identität, Tradition und Kulturerbe im Zeitalter des Massentourismus; and The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture.

Lionel Gossman, M. Taylor Pyne Professor emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, received the George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association for his study Basel in the Age of Burckhardt. A member of the American Philosophical Society, his books include Men and Masks; Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment; Toward a Rational Historiography; Figuring History; An Essay on Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall”; Augustin Thierry; Between History and Literature; André Maurois: Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Moderate; Brownshirt Princess; The Passion of Max von Oppenheim; The Making of a Romantic Icon: Friedrich Overbeck’s “Italia und Germania”; and Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph.

Noa Halevy is an independent scholar, based in Geneva.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture and chair of medieval studies at Harvard University, is the author of Leaves from Paradise; St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology; The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany; Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent; and The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the [End Page 374] Rhineland, ca. 1300. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his books have received awards from the American Philosophical Society, the College Art Association, the International Congress for Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Association of America.

Oren Harman, who chairs the graduate program in science, technology, and society at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness, which received the Los Angeles Times book award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. Other publications include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome and (with Michael Dietrich) Outsider Scientists: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. A frequent writer for the New Republic and Haaretz, his latest book, Evolutions, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Ann Jefferson, professor of French at Oxford University and a recent fellow of the Paris Institut d’études avancées, is the author of Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses, Biography and the Question of Literature in France, and books on literary theory, the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute, and Stendhal. She is also a Commandeur dans l’ordre des palmes académiques and a fellow of the British Academy.

Richard Jenkyns is emeritus professor of the classical tradition at Oxford University and the author of God...

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