Dennis Sherman

Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan. He was visiting professor at the University of Paris (1978-79, 1985). He received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship (1968-69, 1969-70), a fellowship from the Council for Research on Economic History (1971-72), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1973-1976). His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, Eighth Edition (co-author), Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Sixth Edition, World History: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Third Edition, a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace, several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and several short stories in literary reviews.

Joyce Salisbury

Joyce Salisbury is Frankenthal Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where she has taught undergraduates for almost twenty years. She received a Ph.D. in medieval history from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a respected historian who has published many articles and has written or edited ten books, including the critically acclaimed Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman; The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages; and Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. Salisbury is also an award-winning teacher, who was named "Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991" by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education), a prestigious national organization.