Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Barry Allen’s books include Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design; and Truth in Philosophy. He is professor of philosophy at McMaster University.
Ermanno Bencivenga, professor of the humanities and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, is the author of more than forty books in three languages, including Return from Exile: A Theory of Possibility; Looser Ends: The Practice of Philosophy; A Theory of Language and Mind; Logic and Other Nonsense: The Case of Anselm and His God; The Discipline of Subjectivity: An Essay on Montaigne; Kant’s Copernican Revolution; Ethics Vindicated: Kant’s Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse; and Hegel’s Dialectical Knowledge.
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 the 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; The Archaeology of Nostalgia; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The “Ordos Bronzes,” Peter the Great’s Treasure, and Their Kin. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009.
Ardis Butterfield, John M. Schiff Professor of English and professor of French and music at Yale University, is the author of The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War, which received the R. H. Gapper Prize from the Society for French Studies, and Poetry and Music in Medieval France, from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut.
Caroline Walker Bynum is professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former president of the American Historical Association, and a former MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of Wonderful Blood; Christian Materiality: An Essay on Late Medieval Religion; The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200–1336; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Jesus as Mother; and Metamorphosis and Identity.
Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, is a fellow of the British Academy and the author of Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God; The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus; and Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders.
Carlos Fausto is associate professor of anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His books include Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, Os índios antes do Brasil, and (as coeditor) Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia. He is codirector of the documentary feature film As Hiper Mulheres. David Rodgers is a freelance translator, interpreter, and editor. [End Page 165]
Douglas P. Fry chairs the anthropology department at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and is docent of cross-cultural psychology at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. The author of Beyond War and The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence, he is editor or coeditor of War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views; Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World; and Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence.
Dmitry Golynko’s books of poetry include Homo Scribens, As It Turned Out, Директория (The Directory), Бетонные голубки (Concrete Doves), and most recently Что это было идругие обоснования (What It Was and the Other Arguments). He is a researcher at the Russian Institute of Art History, teaches at St. Petersburg University of Cinema and Television, and is a contributing editor at Moscow Art Magazine. Kevin M. F. Platt is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution.
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