Biographical notes R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram is an anthropologist and archivist currently living in the United States. He is the author of Music, Devotions, and the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Kalimát Press, 1987), and his research interests include minority religion, gender, aesthetics, and cross-cultural contact. Nassim W. Berdjis received her PhD in Literature and mass media research from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz in 1995. She is currently teaching in the English Department of the University of California at Davis. Christopher Buck, who lectured in Islamic studies at Carleton University in Ottawa until 1996, received his PhD last year from the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. The State University of New York Press have agreed to publish both his dissertation, Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in 'Persian' Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith, and another work, God and Apple Pie: Visions of America's Spiritual Destiny. Constance M. Chen has written a biography, "The Sex Side of Life" Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education, now available in paperback. She is researching a second biography, which will be about Marzieh Gail. Roshan Danesh is a lawyer from Vancouver, Canada, who is working in the Office of Graduate Studies, Landegg Academy, Switzerland. His areas of interest include constitutional law and the relationship between law and religion, and has published a handbook Social Justice: a Challenge to the Present and Future (University of Victoria Press). Gordon Dicks has a BSc in Economics from the University of Victoria, Canada. He is currently working on a MA in the same field. Graham Hassall is Director of the Asia-Pacific program at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is also a member of the ABS-Australia committee and a member of Faculty for the Certificate in Bahá'í Studies at the Yerrinbool Institute. Richard Hollinger holds a Masters Degrees in Middle Eastern History and Public History/Historic Preservation, and is employed as the archivist of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He conducts research on Bahá'í history as an avocation, and currently working on a history of the Bahá'í students at the American University of Beirut. Roxanne Lalonde is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, specializing in the spiritual dimensions of environmental ethics. Her article "Unity in Diversity: A Conceptual Framework for a Global Ethic of Environmental Sustainability" appeared in The Journal of Bahá'í Studies 6.3 (1994): 39-73. Barney Leith has degrees in sociology from the University of Exeter and social psychology and philosophy from the University of Kent at Canterbury. His experiences as manager of George Ronald publishers, editor of the UK Bahá'í Journal, and liaison member for "review" of the British National Spiritual Assembly have encouraged him to think about its practice. Franklin Lewis is Mellon Lecturer in Persian at the University of Chicago. His PhD thesis won the Foundation for Iranian Studies' Best Dissertation of the Year Award for 1995, and his recent work includes In a Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Short Stories Written by Iranian Women Since the Revolution of 1979 (Mazda Publishers, 1996). Sen McGlinn is a student of Persian at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He has recently published "Some considerations relating to inheritance laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas" in The Bahá'í Studies Review 5.1 (1995): 37-50. Greg Massiah is a final year student in French and German at New College, University of Oxford. Next year he will take an MSc in Computation at Oxford. Susan Stiles Maneck is Assistant Professor of history and religion at Berry College in Georgia, USA. She has written articles on Zoroastrianism, the conversion of religious minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran, and on women in the Bahá'í Faith. Roy Steiner received his PhD from Cornell University in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and is currently a management consultant in corporate environmental strategy. He is also involved with Internet development in Africa and the creation of web-based knowledge systems for agricultural research. Sepideh Taheri graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and is a currently a paediatrician working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, London.

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