The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography

Contributors

285 Contributors Nicola Di Cosmo is the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study since 2003. Previously he taught at Harvard University and at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His main research fields are the archaeology and history of ancient China, Chinese military history, and Mongol and Manchu history. His current research is on the political culture, economic conditions, and social development of the Manchus in the half-century prior to their conquest of China (1590–1640). He occasionally teaches at Princeton University and other institutions. His publications include Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China (2006), A Documentary History of Manchu-Mongol Relations (1616–1626) (coauthored, 2003), Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History (2002, Chinese and Korean translations), The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age (coedited, 2009), and Military Culture in Imperial China (edited, 2009). David Kirby is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at University College London. He has specialized for many years in the history of the Baltic region, and is the coauthor with Dr. Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen of The History of the Baltic and North Seas (Routledge, 2000). His most recent book is A Concise History of Finland (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Wim Klooster is Professor at Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts , where he has taught since 2003. He earned his PhD at the Univer- 286 Contributors sity of Leiden in 1995, and was the Inter-Americas Mellon Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University , a Postdoctoral Fellow in Atlantic History at the National University of Ireland, Galway, a Fulbright Fellow, and the recipient of the NWOTalent (Dutch government) stipend. Since 2001, he has been coeditor of Brill’s Atlantic World series. He has authored or (co)edited eight books, including Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009) and Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648–1795 (1998), and is currently working on a book entitled The Dutch Moment in Atlantic History. Roxani Eleni Margariti is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, she received her BA in Western Asiatic Archaeology from University College, London, her MA in Nautical Archaeology from Texas A&M University, and her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. She is the author of Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), and coeditor of Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy, and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch (Brill, 2011). Peter N. Miller is Professor and Dean of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. He is the general editor of Cultural Histories of the Material World and writes widely on the history of historical research. Nicholas Purcell FBA is Camden Professor of Ancient History and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was University Lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford University and held posts at All Souls College and St John’s College, Oxford. Professor Purcell has written widely on Mediterranean history and the ancient city of Rome. Angela Schottenhammer is professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of South and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Ghent University , Belgium, and adjunct professor of East Asian History at the History Department, McGill University, Montreal. She obtained her PhD in 1993 from Würzburg University, Germany, with a thesis entitled “Song Period Tomb Inscriptions” (MA 1989 on Liao Mosha and the Cultural Revolution ) and her Habilitation degree (postdoctoral university professor teaching qualification) 2000 from Munich University with a thesis entitled “Song Time Quanzhou in a Conflict Situation Between Central Government and Maritime Trade: Unexpected Consequences of the Central Contributors 287 Government’s Grasp for the Wealth of a Coastal Region.” She is the editor of the online journal Crossroads—Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, and of the book series East Asian Maritime History, part of East Asian Economic and Socio-cultural Studies (Dongya jingji yu shehui wenhua luncong 東亞經濟與社會文化論叢), and has widely published on China’s and East Asian economic, social, and cultural history. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is professor of history and the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA. He received his PhD in economics from the Delhi School of...