Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
David Armitage is Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and an honorary fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire; The Declaration of Independence: A Global History; Foundations of Modern International Thought; and, most recently, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas.
Edith Bruder, a research associate at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and at the French National Center for Scientific Research, is the founding president of the International Society for the Study of African Jewry. Her books include The Black Jews of Africa: History, Identity, Religion; Black Jews: Les Juifs noirs d'Afrique et le mythe des Tribus perdues; and (as coeditor) "Africana" Journeys to Judaism and African Zion: Studies in Black Judaism.
Caroline Walker Bynum is professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia. A former MacArthur Fellow, former president of the American Historical Association, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the author of Christian Materiality; Wonderful Blood; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and Jesus as Mother.
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. Currently president of the Council for British Research in the Levant and chair of the Oxford Center for Byzantine Research, she is the author of Procopius and the Sixth Century; Byzantine Matters; The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395–700; Dialoguing in Late Antiquity; Arguing It Out; and (as coeditor) Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500; Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam: The Formation of Classical Islam; and volumes 13 and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History.
Adam S. Cohen, who has recently returned from teaching at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art on a Getty Foundation grant, is associate professor of medieval art history at the University of Toronto. His books include The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany and Haggadah: One Hundred Artistic Treasures.
William J. Diebold is dean of the faculty and Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College. His publications include Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art.
Mikhail Epstein, founding director of the Center for Humanities Innovation at Durham University and professor of Russian literature and cultural theory there, is the author of more than thirty books and seven hundred articles, published in English or Russian and translated into eighteen other languages. He is a recipient of the Liberty Prize for Russian-US Cultural Relations and of the International Essay Prize of Weimar for "Chronocide," which appeared in the spring 2003 issue of Common Knowledge. [End Page 551]
Jamie Gilham is honorary research associate at Royal Holloway, University of London; author of Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam, 1850–1950; and coeditor of Victorian Muslim: Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West.
Noa Halevy is an independent scholar, based in Geneva.
Susan Handelman, professor of English literature at Bar-Ilan University, is the author of The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory; Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Scholem, Benjamin, and Levinas; and "Make Yourself a Teacher": Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples.
Oren Harman 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; The Man Who Invented the Chromosome; Evolutions; and (with Michael Dietrich) Outsider Scientists: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. A frequent writer for the New Republic and Haaretz, he chairs the graduate program in science, technology, and society at Bar-Ilan University.
Ann Jefferson, professor of French emerita at Oxford University, fellow of the British Academy, and Commandeur dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques, is the author of Genius in France...
