Margo Kitts is Associate Professor of Humanities and Coordinator of Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies at Hawai’i Pacific University on Oahu. Her research interests include Homer, ritual studies, religious violence, and the anthropology of revenge. Kitts is the author of Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (2005, 2011) and co-editor of State, Power, and Violence (2010), Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence (2011), and the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (forthcoming).