Mary Lynn Pierce is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Africana Studies Program, and History Department, at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She graduated with a Ph.D. in History Early Modern and Modern Europe, and World History) at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on early modern and modern England, British and French colonialism in Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. She is currently working on completing a monograph “Controversy in Seventeenth-Century English Coffeehouses: Transcultural Interactions with an Oriental Import.” In addition to writing reviews of books on religious and cultural practices in early modern Britain, she has also published several journal articles, including Coffee made Cuckolds and Eunuchs: Emergence of an Ottoman Drink in 17th-Century English Society, Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.