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 has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); 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 short stories on literary reviews.

Joyce E. Salisbury

Joyce E. Salisbury is currently Frankenthal Professor of History and Director of International Education at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and has taught Western Civilization to undergraduates for close to 20 years. She has been honored with many local teaching awards and in 1991 received the prestigious national CASE Professor of the Year in Wisconsin for her work with undergraduates. In addition, Dr. Salisbury wrote a best selling book, Perpetua's Passion, named one of the top 10 books on religion by the Chicago Booklist. Perpetua's Passion is commonly used as a monograph in classrooms around the country. Dr. Salisbury is also very involved in the creation of multimedia as a tool of learning, she has prepared several videos on medieval history that are distributed nationally.