Phiroze Vasunia, who is on sabbatical leave from the University of Reading in the UK, is interested in cross-cultural contact and the history of colonialism and imperialism.  He is the author of The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (Berkeley, 2001) and numerous articles as well as the editor of Zarathushtra and the Religion of Ancient Iran: The Greek and Latin Sources in Translation (Mumbai, 2007).  He is currently completing a monograph on Greece, Rome, and the British Empire and is the co-editor of three forthcoming volumes, the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (with George Boys-Stones and Barbara Graziosi), Classics and National Cultures (with Susan Stephens), and Greece, Rome, and Colonial India (with Edith Hall).  Among his other projects is a commentary on Book 2 of Herodotus’ History, for the Cambridge green & yellow series, and a translation of Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, for Penguin Classics.