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About the Author
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Albert M. Craig is the Harvard-Yenching Research Professor of
History Emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since
1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his
Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg
University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan.
He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The
Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2011), and, with others, of
East Asia , Tradition and Transformation (1989). He is the editor
of Japan , A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality
in Japanese History (1970), Civilization and
Enlightnment: the Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009). He
was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also
been a visiting professor at Kyoto and Tokyo universities. He has
received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships.
In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the
Japanese government.
William A. Graham is Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern
Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and O’Brian Professor
of Divinity and Dean in the Faculty of Divinity at Harvard
University, where he has taught for thirty-four years. He has
directed the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and chaired the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the
Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Core Curriculum
Committee on Foreign Cultures. He received his BA in Comparative
Literature from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an
A.M. and Ph.D. in History of Religion from Harvard, and studied
also in Göttingen, Tübingen, Lebanon, and London. He is former
chair of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion (U.S. and
Canada). In 2000 he received the quinquennial Award for
Excellence in Research in Islamic History and Culture from the
Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) of
the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. He has held John
Simon Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt research fellowships
and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Among his publications are Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects
of Scripture in the History of Religion (1987); Divine Word and
Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977–ACLS History of Religions
Prize, 1978); and Three Faiths, One God (co-authored, 2003).
Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at
Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the
A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in
classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from
Ohio State University. During 1958–1959 he studied at the
American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He
has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell
and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political
thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the
Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969);
The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian
Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); a
biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of
Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995); and The
Peloponnesian War (2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W.
Kagan, of While America s (2000). With Brian Tierney and L.
Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western
Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the
National Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National
Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in
2004.
Steven Ozment is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History
at Harvard University. He has taught Western Civilization at
Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books.
The Age of Reform, 1250—1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was
nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books
have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and
Balthasar: An Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century
Europe (1986), Three Beh Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern
Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of A Revolution (1992),
The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century
German Town (1996), and and Spirit: Private Life in Early
Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are
Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty
Fortress: A New History of the German People (2004), and “Why We
Study Western Civ,” The Public Interest 158 (2005).
Frank M. Turner is John Hay Whitney Professor of History at
Yale University and Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as
University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree
at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He
has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished
Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for
the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has
received the support of fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow
Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion:
The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian
England (1974), The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981),
which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on
British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting
Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life
(1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical
Religion (2002). He has also contributed numerous articles to
journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The
Journal of Modern History, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He edited
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections
on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and Apologia
Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). Between
l996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and
between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities
Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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