Dr Omar Ali, is a Paksitani-American (Punjabi-American? Gujjar-American? Indian-American?) from Lahore who is currently working as a pediatrician and social observer in Saudi Arabia. He loves to read books and and would like to become an "educated person" when he grows up. Meanwhile, he occasionally reviews books for the Pakistani magazine, Herald, and this journal.

Cynthia Arbuthnot is a writer and mother of two who lives in Central Florida. She has published articles in Inscriptions, The Painted Rock, Moondance Review, and Coer De Bois Chapter, RWA, Inc (Heart of Romance). She also writes book reviews for Inscriptions on a regular basis. Cynthia holds an AS degree in Business Administration from Polk Community College and enjoys gardening, reading, writing, researching for articles, and cooking. Her interests include history, culture, art, genealogy, and politics.

Michiel Baas, who holds a degree in International Management and worked for IBM, has a special interest in South Asian writing. Michiel likes to travel and lives in Amsterdam. He will be studying Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam next year.

Eugene Baer, has been a professor of English for almost 20 year, a high school teacher of English for 13, prior to that. He is set to begin a new position teaching professors how to use technolgy to enhance pedagogy. This will be at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he has been a professor of English (Associate Professor rank) in the English-Professional Writing major for the past three years. Baer serves as the review editior for African Literature and Cinema, the African literature and cinema listserv.

Tom Bateman, is Assistant Professor of political studies at Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, Canada. His particular research and teaching interests are in the areas of constitutionalism, constitutional politics, and constitutional law. He has published articles on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, its effect on civil society in Canada, and its relationship to political liberalism.

Dr Mark Berger, is Senior Lecturer in the Studies in Comparative Development Program and the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and Coordinator of the BA in International Studies (Globalization) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He has a BA and an MA in History from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales. He has published widely on international history/political economy, development studies and US diplomatic history with a focus on Asia and the Americas. He is the author of Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and US Hegemony in the Americas 1898-1990 and senior editor of The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century. He is currently working on a book on The United States, the Development Debate and the Rise and Fall of the Cold War in the Asia-Pacific.

Pippa Brush is currently the 1999-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Alberta, Canada. She is working on a book, based on her doctoral work, titled This Feminine Invasion: Women and the Workplace in Canadian Magazines, 1900-1930. She has published and presented her research on a range of topics in Britain, Canada, and the United States. Born and raised in England, she came to Canada in 1992 to begin her graduate work on Canadian literature and culture.

Eva P Bueno teaches Spanish and English at various Japanese universities. She has published four books, two of which are about Brazilian literature and Brazilian cinema: Resisting boundaries: Naturalism and the Formation of a Brazilian Subject, Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture, O Artista do Povo: Mazzaropi no Cinema Brasileiro, Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature. She has co-edited one book on Latin American popular culture, and another one on comparative literature. She is currently writing a book about the representation of AIDS in several countries, and co-editing an encyclopedia of Latin American literature. A memoir she just finished is looking for a home.

Terry Caesar is Professor of American Literature at Mukogawa Women's University in Japan. His interests are literary theory, popular culture, travel writing, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of numerous articles on such subjects as parody, Thomas Pynchon, travel writing and academic politics, as well as the author or editor of six books, most recently Traveling through the Boondocks: In and Out of Academic Hierarchy, published by the State University of New York Press. His previous works have been Conspiring with Forms: Life in Academic Texts, Forgiving the Boundaries. Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing , Writing in Disguise. Academic Life in Subordination, Imagination Beyond Nation. Essays in Latin American Poplular Culture (Co-edited with Eva Bueno) and Naming the Father. Legacies, Geoealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature (Edited with Eva Bueno and Bill Hummel). None of these books has been widely reviewed, which is one reason he likes to review books himself.

Kenneth Christie is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has held positions in universities in the US, Singapore, South Africa and now Norway. Among his most recent publications are The South African Truth Commission and Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics: A Global perspective (Editor). His previous works have been Political Protest in Northern Ireland and Problems in European Politics. Christie specialises in Southeast Asia and Western Europe and is particularly concerned with ideas about democracy and human rights. He is currently completing a comprehensive book on Human Rights In East Asia for Pluto Press which will appear in 2001.

Dr Isa Daudpota schooled in Karachi and did his undergraduate in Electronic Engineering (BSc Hons) and Physics (PhD) from Britain. He then taught in Pakistan and Britain at the university level, after which he spent six years at NASA in Virginia doing research in computational fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. Since his return to Pakistan he has been the Director of Curriculum Development at the University Grants Commission, and the founder director for 5 years of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme, supported by the United Nations Development Program, which popularised the Internet in Pakistan. Over this period he was also associated with IUCN, The World Conservation Union. Since 1997 he does not have a full-time job and he is free to read: science generally, some philosophy, alternative technologies, science and education policy, Internet matters, math and science education, energy and water conservation, and struggles to keep up with some of his old research interest in the harder sciences. He is against nuclear proliferation and has been involved with the national peace movement. He writes about some of these subjects.

Brian Dirck is Assistant Professor of History at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. He received his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1998, specializing in the American Civil War. His first book, Imagining America: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and National Identity, 1809-1865, will be published sometime in 2001.

Dr Robert Doyle is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his BA (German) and MA (Comparative Literature) from Penn State, and the PhD in American Culture Studies from the Bowling Green State University. While teaching at Penn State, Doyle published the first interdisciplinary study of the American captivity experience in 1994, Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative, and became a Fulbright Lecturer of American Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität-Münster (Germany). In 1997, while teaching American Civilization at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France, his follow-up study, A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in US Military History continued the story of American military captivity. He has lectured and participated in international conferences on POW issues in the United States, France, Germany, Austria, and Australia. Doyle resides in Steubenville, Ohio.

Eugene Evans is a an American freelance journalist. Evans is a jack of all trades who has too many interests to specialise in anything in particular. From gender issues to environment and globalisation to art and architecture, he has an interest in everything. There are only two things that that this political science postgraduate does: read and write. He lives off the latter to "subsidise" the former. Evans is deeply concerned about issues facing the world community today is a now an incorrigible netizen. He has an axe to grind in writing -- when in school, he was once told by a teacher that he could not write to save his life. Now, he does precisely that -- writing is his only source of livelihood. Evans doubles up as the Reviews Coordinator for The Reviewer as and when he can.

Deepa Gahlot is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist specialising in film, theatre and literary criticism, women's issues and general interest features. Her columns and writings appear in several publications and webzines. She won the National Award for best film criticism in 1998. She is also interested in travel, developmental work and documentary filmmaking.

Subir Ghosh is a journalist who spent the first three years of his professional career in sales and marketing, switching jobs every few months. He started what he was best at - writing - when he joined India's premier news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) in 1991. He later moved over to the Calcutta-based daily, The Telegraph where he looked after the Region Desk till he left in mid-1998. After a brief stint in the books unit of the New Delhi-based nongovernmental organisation, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), he now edits two e-zines - The Reviewer and Northeast Vigil . This he does under the banner of Allwrite Editorial and Media Consultants, a virtual one-man agency. He also writes for the US magazine on coloured gemstones, Colored Stone; and the online environment newspaper Environmental News Service. He is also International Editorial Consultant with the Women Artists and Writers International (WAWI) cyber-publication, Moondance. Ghosh teaches Internet Advertising and Film Appreciation at EMPI Business School, and Environment and Public Relations at the Centre for Image Management Studies. Both institutions are located in New Delhi. He can be contacted at subirghosh@graffiti.net.

Dr Richard Greenwald, a native born New Yorker, is a historian of modern American society. He received his BA from the City University of New York and his PhD from New York University and is currently working on a book entitled Law and Order in Industry. He has published in a number of scholarly journals and has had his reviews in several newspapers. His specialty is the study of modern American labour, politics and policy formation, and modern city life. He has taught American history, labour history and American Politics at the State University of New York for five years. He currently lives in New York City and teaches on Long Island.

Mark Hall, Associate Professor of Political Science at East Central University, teaches and writes about American Political Theory and Constitutional Law. He has published one book, The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798, and is currently writing a book on the political theory of antebellum women. He has also published a number of articles, book chapters, and book reviews.

Dr Roger Handberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. Graduated PhD. (North Carolina) in 1970. Has published five books - four on space policy, one on criminal justice sentencing with two others in progress regarding ballistic missile defense and NASA history. Other published work (136 articles and 114 papers) has been in Supreme Court decision making, comparative courts, defense budgeting, criminal courts, county sheriffs nationally and in the South specificially, public opinion regarding science and technology, practice of law as a public profession, and public opinion in the Western United States (study of regionalism).

Dr Gordon Harvey is an Assistant Professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. A new father, he writes and teaches about southern history and politics. He earned his PhD at Auburn University and has published articles on New Deal liberalism and the diplomacy of Woodrow Wilson. He is currently completing a manuscript on southern governors of the 1970s and education reform. He has taught classes on world history, recent America, American diplomacy, and US history.

Sanjoy Hazarika worked with The New York Times as a reporter out of South Asia between 1981-96 and won the New York Times Publishers' Award for his reporting out of the region but especially for the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the Bhopal gas disaster. He was earlier with the Associated Press, The Hindustan Times and Himmat Weekly. He is a specialist on issues facing the eastern quadrant of South Asia -- Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal and has travelled extensively in these parts. He is author of two acclaimed bestsellers: Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India's Northast and Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy (both Viking/Penguin) and is currently at work on a book on migration between Bangladesh and Northeast India. Hazarika has produced and scripted several documentary films, including a television series of the Brahmaputra. He was a member of the National Security Advisory Board and is a frequent speaker on the region at conferences in India and abroad.

Dr Karl Henzy is an English professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Henzy received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1993. While his training is in literature, he is passionate as well about music, plastic art, and philosophy, and he is especially interested in the connections between the arts, on which he has been doing scholarly work for the last five or so years. He has published articles in several scholarly journals (including The DH Lawrence Review and The Chronicle for Higher Education) and in book collections, and he has many reviews of books and music at Amazon.com. He is currently working on a grant he was awarded for studying the interrelations of the arts.

Prof Peter I. Hidas has taught History for 26 years at Dawson College (Montreal) and held positions at McGill, Concordia and the University of Sherbrooke. He received his BA in History from Sir George Williams University, Montreal, and MA and PhD (both in in History) from McGill University, Montreal. He is editor-in-chief of the bilingual publication series, The Laws of Hungary. His areas of specialisation include nineteenth century Habsburg and Hungarian history. His books and articles have been published in Hungary, the Netherlands, the United States, England and Canada. Recent research and publications deal with Canadian-Hungarian immigration history.

After her studies at the Bangalore University, and the Indian Institute of Science, Chandra Holm went to The McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada from where she got her doctorate degree in Metallurgy. She lives in Baden, Switzerland with her German husband and two sons. Chandra teaches at various colleges in and near Zurich. She is involved with the Swiss India Society Zurich, is the person behind the society's a literature club devoted to Indian writing, and edits 'Namaste', the society's newsletter. She is the author of the German book, "Dasavatara, Die Zehn Gestalten des indischen Gottes Vischnu" which has as illustrations magnificent miniature paintings from the Pahari region belonging to the collection of the Rietberg Museum. She has translated, from German into English, the book, "Paintings by Nainsukh of Guler" by Eberhard Fischer and BN Goswamy, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name shown this year at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC. Her web site, " Chandra's Bookpage, is devoted to Indian literature. Chandra maintains currently the website of the Joyce Luck Club which is meant for all those who are new to the works of James Joyce.

Norman Jones is Professor of History at Utah State University. Educated at the College of Southern Idaho, Idaho State University, the University of Colorado, and Cambridge University, he teaches medieval and early modern European history. Fascinated with the intersection of ideology and behavior, his books include The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s, The Parliaments of Elizabethan England (ed. with David Dean), God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England, and Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559. He is currently writing a book on the cultural impacts of the English Reformation. As a teacher, he is interested in applications of internet technology to teaching, maintaining his own websites. That same interest has drawn him into academic reform movements, and consulting and occasionally writing on curriculum reform. An Idaho farmer by birth and breeding, he loves to garden, and he has a yard full of native plants from the Rocky Mountains.

Francesca Jourdan is an independent researcher for the company medfooddirect.com. Her area of expertise, though, is Egyptology. She has published articles on the subject in the British journal InScription, Journal of Ancient Egypt. She writes book reviews for her website Bibliography of Ancient Egypt, where some of her articles are available for reading online. Her passion for Ancient Egypt started after visiting the Louvre and Place de la Concorde years ago. Other than English, she speaks fluent French and Italian, and has a knowledge of Spanish and German. She enjoys reading, writing, researching for articles, translating, horseback riding and traveling. Her interests include food history, linguistics and anthropology.

Dr Charles C Kolb, an independent scholar, is also Senior Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities. He received a BA in history and PhD in anthropology and archaeology from The Pennsylvania State University, and has taken postgraduate work at a number of institutions. From 1969-1983 he served on the faculties of Bryn Mawr College, Penn State, and Penn State-Erie, and was Director of Research and Grants and the Assistant Director of the Library at Mercyhurst College prior to joining NEH in 1989, having also been a board member of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 1979-1989. Since 1962 he conducted archival, anthropological, historical, and ecological research in the North American Great Lakes region, Mexico, Afghanistan, Uganda, and Peru. Cross-trained in the physical sciences and specialising in physicochemical analyses of pottery, he is the author of over 120 major publications and 300 book and film reviews, edits a monograph series on ceramics, serves as an abstractor for scientific journals, and is associate or regional editor for three technical journals in archaeology. At NEH he is responsible for research and demonstration, preservation, still and moving image, and recorded sound preservation and access projects. His particular interests include materials science, archaeology and anthropology, military and diplomatic history, cartography, demography, and science fiction.

Dr Jon Lauck received his PhD in Economic History from the University of Iowa in 1997 and his JD from the University of Minnesota in 2000. In April of 2000, his book American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly was released by the University of Nebraska Press. He is currently practicing law at Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith in Sioux Falls, SD.

Dr Peter Limb is a librarian, bibliographer, and scholar based in Australia. His main areas of interest are: African studies/South Africa; Internet resources; postcolonial studies; and history. He regularly and widely reviews books (and occasionally films) for scholarly and library journals, as well as for scholarly Internet forums such as H-Africa, H-AfrLitCin, and H-SAfrica (on which he serves as Reviews Editor). In 1995-6 he wrote a bibliographic column in the Southern African Review of Books. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of the Western Cape, an historical consultant for a film on the anti-apartheid movement, and referee of scholarly articles for journals such as Mots pluriels and Journal of Religious History. He sits on the editorial boards of H-Africa, H-SAfrica, Mots pluriels, African Review of Books, Encyclopedia of Colonialism, and Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. He has edited special issues of journals and published widely, including three bibliographies on African politics, literatures, and history. Limb is Coordinator, African Studies Centre of Western Australia and Co-organiser of the international conference New Aerican Perspectives. He maintains a regularly updated Internet guide to African studies.

Dr Lokangaka Losambe is Professor of English and Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Fort Hare. He did his BA and MA in English from the National University of Zaire, and MEd from the University of Wales before earning his PhD in English from University of Ibadan. He has taught English both at National University of Zaire and University of Ibadan, and been a Senior Lecturer at Ondo State University, Nigeria, Visiting Associate Professor of Critical Theory, University of Cape Town, Visiting Associate Professor of African Studies, University of Pittsburgh, and Visiting Associate Professor of English, University of Vermont, Burlington. He has to his credit two books and numerous articles in scholarly journals on African literature and postcolonial theory. Losambe is currently finishing a book manuscript on Borderline Movements in African Fiction.

David Lawrence Mason completed his BA in History and Economics from Emory University and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as Assistant Vice President at First Interstate Bank of California and Nationsbank, before taking charge as Vice President of The Bank Of Tokyo Ltd in Atlanta. He has been a banking consultant since 1991 and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Ohio State University where he serves as a classroom instructor for survey courses in early American and recent American history. Here he is also a history tutor to athletes on both a regular schedule and by special arrangement He is also a PhD candidate at OSU. He has been awarded three prestigious research awards and won two fellowships this year alone.

Man from Matunga in the nom de plume of a Mumabi-based executive. His is a name one would frequently find on most active discussion lists pertaining to the literary and publishing world. MFM publishes his reviews of books and films on his site Man from Matunga, and contributes to a number of online publications. He steadfastly refuses to divulge anything more.

Deepali Nandwani has been a journalist for the last eight years, having done stints with newspapers as varied as Mid Day, The Daily and The Sunday Observer. For two years she worked with Island, a magazine that used to be published from Bombay (now Mumbai). As of now, Nandwani is Associate Editor with The Asian, an online newspaper. She, like all bibliophiles, fancies herself as a reviewer since she has been devouring books ever since can remember. She has handled the books page of The Sunday Observer, when she worked there as a senior correspondent.

Dr Myron C Noonkester who holds holds a PhD in British History from the University of Chicago, is Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US. His scholarly interests focus upon the political impact of sheriffs in the English-speaking world and the writings of Edward Gibbon. He has contributed to reference works on historical writing and Tudor-Stuart history and to journals including Journal of British Studies, Harvard Theological Review, New England Quarterly, Church History, and English Language Notes. He has also reviewed on the web for H-Albion, a discussion list for British and Irish history. Noonkester was alerted to the dangers of over-exuberance about books when, in a scholarship interview at Duke University in 1974, a senior faculty member steadied him with the words "You are aware, are you not, that [Gore Vidal's] Burr is a work of fiction??!"

Dr Stephen Perez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Washington State University and received his doctorate from University of California at Davis in 1994. Perez has held his current position since 1997 before which he was an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published several papers about monetary policy and macroeconomics in journals such as: Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Econometrics Journal, Economics Letters, and The Journal of Economic Methodology. His reviewing interests include macroeconomics, monetary policy, sports, and sports economics.

Dr Mark Pittaway is Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University in the United Kingdom. An historian by training he graduated from the University of Warwick in 1993 and gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1998. He is an historian of Twentieth Century Eastern Europe, specialising in social change during the years of Communist rule in Hungary. He has worked extensively in newly opened Communist era archives in the country and lived in Budapest between 1994 and 1997, and was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1994 and 1996. He is the author of several articles dealing with the social history of industrial labour under Communism, as well as the government and politics of post-socialist Hungary. He is currently completing a book on the social history of industrial workers during the first decade of Communist rule in the country.

Navaratna S Rajaram is a mathematician, linguist and historian of science based in Oklahoma City, US and Bangalore, India. After more than 20 years as a faculty member and research consultant to hi-tech industry in the US, he is now an independent researcher and writer. Until recently, his best-known work was the study of ancient Indian mathematics and its connection to Egypt and Babylon. He is now known also for his work on the decipherment of the 5000-year old Indus script, done jointly with the Vedic scholar, Natwar Jha. He is the author of Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization with David Frawley and 'The Deciphered Indus Script' with N Jha. He has also written popular books like From Sarasvati River to the Indus Script and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Crisis of Christianity.

Kristen Robinson is a PhD candidate in British history at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests focus on the formation (or lack of formation) of a British identity in the eighteenth century, particularly in Scotland. Her dissertation, exploring questions of British and Scottish identity in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, will be completed in May 2001. She also has a strong interest in women's history in Europe (particularly in Britain and Scotland) and North America.

Robyn Sassen is a Fine Arts graduate from the department of Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has just completed an Honours degree in Art History through the University of South Africa, where she also teaches on a contractual basis. She also runs a design studio in Johannesburg, and does freelance art writing in the local press. In 1997 she held her first solo exhibition in Johannesburg, and continues to make etchings and drawings in her own capacity. She has written numerous reviews of both books and multimedia for both online and print publications, Sassen enjoys pursuing her academic interests which range from African art and culture, to historical realities pertinent to her identity as a Jew.

Mark Sedgwick is an historian of religion working at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he teaches courses in the departments of English & Comparative Literature and of Arabic Studies. He arrived in Cairo in the late 1980s after studies at Oxford University in England, and did his doctorate in history at the University of Bergen in Norway. Cultural transfer is among his main interests, and he is currently working on a book on the impact of Eastern religions in the West. He is also known for his work on small religious groups and on sects and society, and has recently published Sufism: The Essentials. He continues to review books for various academic journals, and to delight in his small daughter.

Rasik Shah was born in the Indian diaspora in the colonial apartheid type society of Kenya in the early Forties. Having grown up in a multi-lingual, multi-racial society, he studied law in the London of the early Sixties and went back to Kenya, practising as a criminal lawyer. He migrated with his young family to Canada in 1974 and practised law in Vancouver till 1995. He has been conducting trekking tours to the Garwhal region of India in the last few years and is now retired from law, writing full time. He has short stories at The Ngong Hills at , At the Dentist's and The Discreet Charm of Nairobbers. Currently, he is working on a novel set in Kenya. He plans to lead a trekking group to Gaumukh, the source of the Ganges in September, 2000. (See his articles on the Gangotri-Tapovan trek in the previous issues of www.sawf.org, travel section) and a jeep safari to Leh, Ladakh overland from Shimla via Lahaul and Spiti in the summer of 2001.

Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Mr And Mrs President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (University Press of Kansas, 2000) and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate (Harvard University Press, 1996). He has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review, the Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, the American Historical Review, the Montreal Gazette, and tompaine.com.

Robert Whaples is Associate Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is Associate Director and Book Review Editor of EH.NET, which provides electronic services to economic historians. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His reviewing interests include economics, history, and public policy. His reviews have been published mainly in academic journals such as the Business Library Review, the Journal of Economic History, and Choice.

Andrew Wilson is a military and diplomatic historian currently completing his PhD in history at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. After receiving his BA degree in history from Willamette University (Salem, OR) and his MA degree in history from the University of Cincinnati, Wilson went on to teach US history at both Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati, University College. Wilson's primary fields of research include US-Latin American military and diplomatic relations, US military and naval history, and maritime history. His work has appeared in the US Naval Institute's Proceedings as well as on the internet history site H-DIPLO. At present Wilson is working for the US Congress and living in Virginia where he continues to research and write on behalf of Clio.

Michael J. Woznicki spent 7½ in the United States Navy where he earned an AS Degree in Electronics. Over the past 11 years Michael has worked for SunLife of Canada as a Network Analyst, CrossComm Corporation as the Corporate Network Administrator and for Porter & Chester Institute as a Technical Instructor. Michael has worked in many facets of the computer industry from Help Desk Support Supervisor and Senior Technical Support Engineer to Network Field Service Technician and Network Administrator. Mike is also working toward certifications in Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW), CompTIA INet+, Microsoft MCSE 2000 and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).