Florin Curta is Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include: The Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube region, c. 500-700 (2001), which received the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association; and Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (2005). He is also the editor of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (2005) and Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis (2006). He is currently completing a monograph on Moravia and Bulgaria in the ninth century.