Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen is the author of Truth in Philosophy, Knowledge and Civilization, and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics.
Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, is professor emeritus of art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many books are The Loss of Art: The Legacy of Marcel Duchamp, Picasso's Brothel, The Youth of Cézanne and Zola, Manet: The Picnic and the Prostitute, German Artists and Hitler's Mind, and The Ara Pacis of Augustus and Mussolini.
Lori Baker, who teaches creative writing at Brown University, is the author of Scraps and Crazy Water: Six Fictions, for which she received the Bobst Award in Arts and Letters.
Mordechai Bar-On, formerly a member of the Knesset and a retired army colonel, is a founder of Peace Now and the author of In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement and The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back. In the Israel Defense Forces, he served as head of the chief of staff's bureau, chief education officer, and, during the Suez campaign, Moshe Dayan's personal assistant. Currently he is a senior fellow of the Yad Ben Zvi Research Institute in Jerusalem.
Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, The History of Greek Vases, The World of Ancient Art, and (as editor) the Oxford History of Classical Art.
Peter Burke, professor of cultural history at Cambridge University and a fellow of Emmanuel College, is the author of some dozen books, including The Fabrication of Louis XIV, What is Cultural History?, A Social History of Knowledge, Eyewitnessing, History and Social Theory, The French Historical Revolution, Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy, and The Art of Conversation.
Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. She is the author of Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Jesus as Mother; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336. A past president of the American Historical Association and of the Medieval Academy, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [End Page 173]
Clare Cavanagh is associate professor of Slavic languages and literature at Northwestern University. The author of Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition, she has received the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association and the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for Literary Translation.
Mitchell Cohen, until recently coeditor of Dissent magazine, is professor of political science at Bernard Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State, The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, and (as coeditor) Princeton Readings in Political Thought.
Pink Dandelion is professor of Quaker studies and director of the Center for Postgraduate Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham, as well as editor of the journal Quaker Studies. His books include The Liturgies of Quakerism, The Creation of Quaker Theory, The Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers, Introduction to Quakerism, and The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction.
Elizabeth Freund, author of The Return of the Reader and (in Hebrew) The Shakespearean Spectacle, taught English literature for many years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Christophe Fricker teaches German at Duke University and is currently preparing monographs on Ernst Jünger and Stefan George for publication. His other publications include Larkin Terminal: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen; Das schöne Auge des Betrachters; "Living Together": Die amerikanischen Dichter Edgar Bowers, Dick Davis und Timothy Steele; Friedrich Gundolf–Friedrich Wolters: Ein Briefwechsel aus dem Kreis um Stefan George; and Friedrich Hölderlin —Zu seiner Dichtung. He is...
