Bethany Walker^BBethany Walker^b is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Missouri State University. She has published widely on Mamluk and Ottoman socio-economic history and material culture in primarily American and French journals. A historian and arhaeologist, she directs two archaeological projects in Jordan and for the last twenty years has been doing fieldwork at sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Her edited work ^GReflections of Empire: Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies on the Pottery of the Ottoman Levant^g was published by the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2009. Read More Read Less