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Marc Van De Mieroop

Marc Van De Mieroop (PhD, Yale University) is Professor of History at Columbia University. His research focuses on the ancient history of the Near East from a long-term perspective and extends across traditionally established disciplinary boundaries. Among his many works are The Ancient Mesopotamian City; Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History; A History of the Ancient Near East; The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II; and A History of Ancient Egypt.

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Wanda Van Goor

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Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler, critic and scholar of English-language poetry from the seventeenth century to the present, is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University–the first woman to hold a University Professorship, the highest academic distinction Harvard bestows. In 2004 the National Endowment for the Humanities named her the Jefferson Lecturer, the highest academic distinction conferred by the Federal Government.  She was poetry critic of The New Yorker from 1978-1990, and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1990-1999, often serving before those years on Pulitzer Prize juries for poetry.  She has written scholarly studies of William Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney, and Emily Dickinson, and has received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism in 1981, as well as the Truman Capote Prize and the Lowell Prize of the MLA.  Her criticism has been collected in several volumes, including Part of Nature, Part of Us; The Music of What Happens; and Soul Says.  Her 2007 Mellon Lectures have been published under the title Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Bishop, Merrill.

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Janet Vigna

Janet Vigna, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is also a member of the Integrated Science Program. She has been teaching university-level biology for 14 years, with a special interest in effectively teaching biology to nonmajors. Her current research focuses on the environmental effects of the biological pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on natural frog communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.

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Maria Villar-Smith

Maria C. Villar-Smith is an Associate Professor Senior of English and developmental writing at Miami Dade College. She has taught at the college from 1993 to present. She is fluent in Spanish and French, and is functional in Russian. Her foreign language skills have given her a unique insight and perspective into English language acquisition, making her quite an effective composition instructor. As an initial test creator for the Florida Basic Exit Exam, she was approached to develop a study guide that would aid Florida college students succeed on the exit exam. Author of From Practice to Mastery--Reading and Writing: A Study Guide for the Florida Basic Skills Exit Test, (Bedford/St. Martin 2004), Villar- Smith is also a member of NADE (National Association of Developmental Education) and NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English). She is a graduate of the University of Florida, American University, The University of Paris-La Sorbonne, Norwich Russian School, and Florida International University. She is currently writing her second textbook on developmental English.

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Voltaire

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Rudi Volti

Rudi Volti is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, and he is a founding member of the program in Science, Technology, and Society of the Claremont Colleges. His books and articles have covered a variety of topics relating to the interaction of technology and society, including technology transfer to East Asia, the history of the engineering profession, the origin of frozen foods, and the history of automobile engines. He currently serves as book review editor for Transfers: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies. His personal encounters with  technology center on cars, motorcycles, and model railroading.

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Richard von Glahn

Richard von Glahn (PhD, Yale University) is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in Chinese economic history, Richard is the author of The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times; Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700; and The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. He is also coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History and Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470–1800. His current research focuses on monetary history on a global scale, from ancient times to the recent past.

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Michael Vorenberg

Michael Vorenberg (PhD, Harvard University) is associate professor of history at Brown University, where he teaches courses on antebellum America, the Civil War and reconstruction, race and law, and American legal and constitution history. Vorenberg’s research interests lie at the intersection of three fields in American history: the Civil War era, legal and constitution history, and race and emancipation. He is author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize in 2002, as well as numerous essays and articles on topics ranging from Lincoln’s plans for the colonization of African Americans to the meaning of rights and privileges under the Fourteenth Amendment.

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