Advancing Cultural Astronomy Studies In Honour of Clive Ruggles

“The volume is definitively worth reading, especially for young researchers.” (Giulio Magli, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 54 (1), February, 2023)

“The contributions are all thoroughly referenced and the production of the book is good. I learnt a lot; but the very breadth of scope and great specialization of the contributions make the book more likely to be dipped into than read through or find a place in many astronomers’ libraries.” (Peredur Williams, The Observatory, Vol. 142 (1286), February, 2022)

John Steele is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity in the Department of Egytpology and Assyriology at Brown University. A historian of ancient astronomy, his work focusses primarily on astronomy and astrology in ancient Babylonia. He is the author of several books including recently
The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN
(co-authored with Hermann Hunger, 2019),
The Cuneiform Uranology Texts: Drawing the Constellations
(co-authored with Paul-Alain Beaulier, Eckart Frahm and Wayne Horowitz, 2018), and
Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy
(2017). 






Efrosyni Boutsikas is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies. She investigates the expression of ancient Greek cosmological beliefs and astronomical knowledge discerned in myths and religious performance. Efrosyni has ongoing research projects in Greece and Sicily and has published in a range of classical, archaeological, and archaeoastronomical journals and edited volumes. She is the author of
The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience: Sacred Space, Memory, and Cognition
(2020).






Stephen McCluskey is Professor Emeritus of History at West Virginia University. Trained as a Historian of Medieval Science, his research has focused on early astronomies and their relationships with religion and other elements of culture. Among his works are
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe
(Cambridge, 1998) and numerous other publications on early medieval astronomy, the astronomies of the Hopi and other Puebloan peoples, and on the interactions of astronomy with other cultural traditions. He was recently selected as a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.