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The Earth and Its Peoples
Author Biographies
Richard W. Bulliet is a Professor of Middle Eastern History at Columbia University
and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has written scholarly works on a number
of topics: the social history of medieval Iran (The Patricians of Nishapur), the historical
competition between pack camels and wheeled transport (The Camel and the Wheel), the process
of conversion to Islam (Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period), and the overall course
of Islamic social history (Islam: The View from the Edge). He is the editor of the Columbia
History of the Twentieth Century. He has published four novels, co-edited The Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East, and hosted an educational television series on the Middle East.
He was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Pamela Kyle Crossley received her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from Yale University.
She is Professor of History and Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth
College. Her books include A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology;
The Manchus; Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World; and
(with Lynn Hollen Lees and John W. Servos) Global Society: The World Since 1900. Her research,
which concentrates on the cultural history of China, Inner Asia, and Central Asia, has been
supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Daniel R. Headrick received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.
Professor of History and Social Science at Roosevelt University in Chicago, he is the
author of several books on the history of technology, imperialism, and international
relations, including The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth
Century; The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism; The Invisible
Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics; and When Information Came of Age: Technologies
of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850. His articles have appeared in the Journal
of World History and the Journal of Modern History, and he has been awarded fellowships by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Steven W. Hirsch holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University and is currently
Associate Professor Classics and History at Tufts University. He has received grants from
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities
and Public Policy. His research and publications include The Friendship of the Barbarians:
Xenophon and the Persian Empire, as well as articles and reviews in the Classical Journal,
the American Journal of Philology, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
He is currently working on a comparative study of ancient Mediterranean and Chinese civilizations.
Lyman L. Johnson is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte and earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Connecticut.
A two-time Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer, he also has received fellowships from the Tinker Foundation,
the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American
Philosophical Society. His recent books include Death, Dismemberment, and Memory; The Faces of
Honor (with Sonya Lipsett-Rivera); The Problem of Order in Changing Societies; Essays on the Price
History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America (with Enrique Tandeter); and Colonial Latin America
(with Mark A. Burkholder). He also has published in journals, including the Hispanic American
Historical Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the International Review of Social
History, Social History, and Desarrollo Economico. He recently served as president of the
Conference on Latin American History.
David Northrup is a Professor of History at Boston College and earned his Ph.D.
in African and European History from the University of California at LosAngeles. He earlier
taught in Nigeria with the Peace Corps and at Tuskegee Institute. Research supported by the
Fulbright-Hays Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science
Research Council led to publications concerning pre-colonial Nigeria, the Congo (1870-1940),
the Atlantic slave trade, and Asian, African, and Pacific Islander indentured labor in the
nineteenth century. A contributor to the Oxford History of the British Empire and Blacks in
the British Empire, his latest book is Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. For 2004 and
2005 he serves as president of the World History Association.
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