John P. McKay Born in St. Louis, John P. McKay received his B. A. from Wesleyan University (1961), his M. A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1962), and his Ph. D. from the University of Cal ifornia, Berkeley (1968). He began teaching history at the University of Illinois in 1966 and became a Professor there in 1976. John won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 (1970). He has also written Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (1976) and has translated Jules Michelet’s The People (1973). His research has been supported by fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and IREX. He has written well over a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews, which have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Historical Review, Business History Review, The Journal of Economic History, and Slavic Review. He contributed extensively to C. Stewart and P. Fritzsche, eds., Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997).
Bennett D. Hill A native of Philadelphia, Bennett D. Hill earned an A. B. from Princeton (1956) and advanced degrees from Harvard (A. M., 1958) and Princeton (Ph. D., 1963). He taught history at the University of Illinois, where he was department chair from 1978 to 1981. He published English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century (1968), Church and State in the Middle Ages (1970), and articles in Analecta Cisterciensia, The New Catholic Encyclopaedia, The American Benedictine Review, and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. His reviews appeared in The American Historical Review, Speculum, The Historian, the Journal of World History, and Library Journal. He was one of the contributing editors to The Encyclopedia of World History (2001). He was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and served on the editorial board of The American Benedictine Review, on committees of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (1995-1996). A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm’s Abbey in Washington, D. C., he was also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University.
John Buckler Born in Louisville, Kentucky, John Buckler received his Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1973. In 1980 Harvard University Press published his Theban Hegemony, 371-362 b. c. He published Philip II and the Sacred War (Leiden 1989) and also edited BOIOTIKA: Vortrage vom 5. Internationalen Bootien-Kolloquium (Munich 1989). In 2003 he published Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century b. c. In the following year appeared his editions of W. M. Leake, Travels in the Morea (three volumes), and Leake’s Peloponnesiaca. Cambridge University Press published his Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century, edited by Hans Beck, in 2008.
Clare Haru Crowston Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Toronto, Clare Haru Crowston received her B. A. in 1985 from McGill University and her Ph. D. in 1996 from Cornell University. Since 1996, she has taught at the University of Illinois, where she has served as associate chair and Director of Graduate Studies, and is currently Associate Professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (Duke University Press, 2001), which won two awards, the Berkshire Prize and the Hagley Prize. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Womens History (vol. 18, nos. 3 and 4) and has published numerous articles and reviews in journals such as Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, French Historical Studies, Gender and History, and the Journal of Economic History. Her research has been supported with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Bourse Chateaubriand of the French government. She is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies and a former chair of the Pinkney Prize Committee.
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Having grown up in Minneapolis, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks received her B. A. from Grinnell College in 1973 (as well as an honorary doctorate some years later), and her Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. She taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of nineteen books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. These include Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge, 2006), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 3d ed., 2008), and Gender in History (Blackwell, 2001). She currently serves as the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History and has also written a number of source books for use in the college classroom, including Discovering the Western Past (Houghton Mifflin, 6th ed, 2007) and Discovering the Global Past (Houghton Mifflin, 3d. ed., 2006), and a book for young adults, An Age of Voyages, 1350-1600 (Oxford 2005).
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