Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Inga Clendinnen’s books include Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact, which received the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction; Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1517–1570, which received the Bolton Memorial Prize for Latin American studies; Reading the Holocaust, which was a New York Times “best book of the year” in 1999; True Stories, originally delivered as Boyer Lectures for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society, which received the Hodgins Memorial Medal. She was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia in 2006.
Robin Davidson was Fulbright professor of American literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków during 2003–2004 and currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. She is cotranslator of Ewa Lipska’s The New Century. Her own poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, AGNI, Literary Imagination, Tampa Review, 91st Meridian, Gulf Coast, and Words Without Borders.
Philip Gossett, who has received the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and the Italian government’s highest civilian honor, the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, is Reneker Distinguished Service Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Chicago and, currently, professor “di chiara fama” at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” General editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi and The Works of Gioachino Rossini, he is also the author of Divas and Scholars, which received the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, and “Anna Bolena” and the Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, he has served as president of both the American Musicological Society and the Society of Textual Scholarship.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture and chair of medieval studies at Harvard University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he 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 Rhineland, ca. 1300. 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.
Peter T. Leeson, author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, is BB&T Professor of Economics at George Mason University and North American editor of Public Choice. Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better than You Think is in progress.
Ewa Lipska has written some twenty volumes of poetry (which have appeared in fifteen languages), as well as a novel, Sefer, published in 2009. The recipient of awards from P.E.N.-Warsaw, the Kościelski Foundation of Geneva, and the Jurzykowski Foundation of New York, she has three books in English translation: The New Century, Pet Shops and Other [End Page 582] Poems, and Poet? Criminal? Madman? Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, who is the author of four volumes of verse and a collection of short stories, has been nominated by Adam Zagajewski for the Kościelski Foundation Award and is the recipient of an award for poetry judged by Wisława Szymborska. With Robin Davidson, she is cotranslator of Ewa Lipska’s The New Century.
Adam Michnik cofounded the 1976 Workers’ Defense Committee, the earliest dissident institution in Eastern Europe, and has been editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest circulation newspaper in Poland, since its inception in 1989. His books include Letters from Prison, Letters from Freedom, The Church and the Left, and, recently, In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe. He has received, among other prizes, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the World Press Freedom Hero Award, the Freedom Award of P.E.N.-Paris, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Prize for Journalism and Democracy, the Goethe Medal (awarded by the German government), and the highest Polish decoration, the Order of the White Eagle. He and Václav Havel were together awarded the St. George Medal by...
