JOHN FINE (Ph.D. Harvard). Professor of History. Interests: Medieval and modern Balkans, Byzantium. Selected Books: The early medieval Balkans : a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century (1983); The late medieval Balkans : a critical survey from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman Conquest (1987). Not on e-mail; 1029 Tisch Hall; telephone: 734-763-2231

JOHANNES FOUFOPOULOS (Ph.D. Wisconsin).  Assistant Professor of Natural Resources in the School of Natural Resources and Environment.  Interests:  Evolutionary and conservation biology; Management of Natural Resources; Mediterranean Cultures and Natural Environment; Evolutionary biology; Cypriot population and conservation biology. email jfoufop@umich.edu

TRAIANOS GAGOS (Ph.D., 1987, Durham), Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek; Archivist, Papyrology Collection, University Library; Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum. Interests: Greek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Selected Books: "Scanning the Past: A Modern Approach to Ancient Culture"; The Evolution of the English Bible (interactive CD; 1999 Best Book Award, University of Michigan Press); Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (co-editor); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 61 (with M. Haslam and N.Lewis); Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt. email: traianos@umich.edu; telephone: 734-647-3290 or 734-764-9369

JANET HART (Ph.D., Cornell). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Interests: Gender and social anthropology of protest, feminist thought, social movements, comparative nationalisms, politicalanthropology, anthropology of Southern Europe, oral history, methodology and critique. Selected Books: Cracking the code: allegory and political mobilization in the Greek resistance (1991); New voices in the nation: women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964 (1996). email: janeth@umich.edu

THELMA THOMAS (PhD, New York University / Institute of Fine Arts); Associate Professor, History of Art; Associate Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Scholarly Interests: art and architecture of the Byzantine commonwealth with a special focus on cultural, archaeological and historiographic contexts for late Roman and early Byzantine art, especially textiles and funerary arts of early Byzantine Egypt. Selected Books: Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for this World and the Next (in press), and contributions to the exhibition catalogues "Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts 2nd to 7th Centuries" (1989) and "The Glory of Byzantium" (1997). email: tkthomas@umich.edu

KEITH TAYLOR  Lecturer, English Language and Literature; Scholarly interests: American poetry and prose, Greek literature, the influence of the arts on the community. Taylor is the author of five small press collections of poetry and one of very short stories; he has also co-edited two volumes, one on imaginative responses to the Huron River, as well as "What These Ithakas Mean: Readings in Cavafy," with Artemis Leontis and Lauren Talalay. He coordinates the UM undergraduate program in creative writing. email: keitay@umich.edu