Cynthia Chambers recently received her doctorate from the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington; the essay printed here came second in the Society's annual prize-competition.

Anne Good read this paper at the Portland (OR) meeting of the Society; she is assistant professor of history at Reinhardt College (Georgia), specializing in early modern Germany and South Africa.

Raynald Laprise is an amateur historian from Québec, who has worked a good deal on late seventeenth-century pirates.

Alistair Maeer is a recent doctoral graduate of the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington; for some years he was assistant editor of Terrae Incognitae.

Benjamin Olshin is a scholar who works in Chinese culture and in the history of cartography; he teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Matthew Voss is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota; his essay won this year's student essay prize.