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384 about the authors About the Authors Agustijanto I. is an archaeologist at the National Research and Development Centre of Archaeology, Jakarta, Indonesia. His research focuses on the protohistoric period in Southeast Asia. Email: agustijanto2004@yahoo.com Joachim K. Bautze is an art historian with extensive experience in the field of South Asian and Southeast Asian art. His current main research focuses on the interaction between Western reproduction technology and Eastern aesthetics. Email: joachim@bautze.com Roger M. Blench is Chief Research Officer, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, in Cambridge, U.K. His special interest is the interface between linguistics, archaeology and material culture. Email: rogerblench@yahoo.co.uk Budi Istiawan is an archaeologist at the archaeological office Balai Pelestarian Peninggalan Purbakala Batusangkar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. His main interests are the inscriptions and archaeology of West Sumatra. Email: budist_anya@yahoo.co.id Federico Carò is Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S. His research interests focus on petrography and geochemistry of stone materials in provenance and conservation studies. Email: federico.caro@metmuseum.org Louise Allison Cort is curator for ceramics at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, U.S. She pursues research on historical and contemporary ceramics in Japan, India and mainland Southeast Asia. Email: cortlo@si.edu Henry Dosedla has been engaged in educational and agricultural development programs in Papua-New Guinea and has documented the gradual stages of cultural change, including the related social effects, amongst the people of the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. After retirement from the Prehistory Department of the German Museum of Agriculture at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany, his continuing research and publications have focused on parallels between recent archaic societies and conditions in prehistoric Europe. Email: hdosedla@yahoo.com Erond L. Damanik is a researcher at the Center for History and Social Science Studies Research Institute, State University of Medan, Indonesia. His main interest is the archaeology and history of northern Sumatra. Email: eronddamanik@yahoo.com E. Edwards McKinnon is a research associate of the Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore, based in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. His main interest is the archaeology of inter-regional trade of the mediaeval period and its impact on society in northern Sumatra. Email: edmund.edwardsmckinnon@gmail.com Robert Fuchs is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne — Institute for Conservation Sciences CICS, Germany. He specializes in conservation of documents, graphics, photography and illuminations. Email: robert.fuchs@fh-koeln.de 384 Connecting Empires hi res combin384 384 8/24/2012 9:50:06 PM 385 about the authors Adalbert J. Gail was director of the department of art history of the Institut für Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Since 1995, he has been a professor of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. Currently, his research focuses on the nāga motif in Khmer art and a history of Hinduism based on art monuments of the Khmer Empire. Email: adalbert.gail@googlemail.com Goh Geok Yian is Assistant Professor with the History Group, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include archaeology and early history of Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Burma and mainland Southeast Asia, world history and civilizations, classical and modern Burmese literature, and early communication and trade networks between Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean and South China Sea regions. Email: gygoh@ntu.edu.sg John Guy is curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Asian Art, New York, U.S. Email: john.guy@metmuseum.org Johannes Maria Hämmerle OFM Cap. works as a catholic priest on the island of Nias since 1971. He is initiator of the Nias Heritage Foundation (Yayasan Pusaka Nias, YPN) and of a museum of cultural art in Gunung Sitoli, Indonesia, in 1995. Email: p.johannes.haemmerle@gmail.com Heddy Surachman is a researcher at the National Archaeology Research and Development Centre Jakarta, Indonesia. His research focuses on Islamic and classical archeology. Email: heddy_arkenas@yahoo.com Mitch Hendrickson is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S. His main interest is the role of transportation and industrial processes in state-level societies. Email: mjhend@uic.edu Htwe Htwe Win is an independent scholar who received her PhD in history from Yangon University in 2007 for a thesis titled Votive Tablets of...

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