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Michael DeCesare received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He is assistant professor of sociology at Merrimack College. He is
the author of A Discipline Divided: Sociology in American High Schools (2007).
His articles have appeared in The American Sociologist, Teaching Sociology,
Social Biology, and other journals. Currently, he is working on a book about
Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s role in the U.S. right-to-die movement.
Sean Elias teaches at Southern Methodist University and is completing
his dissertation, “Black and White Sociology: The Segregation of American
Sociology,” at Texas A&M University. He studies how race (ideas about
race, racial group relations, and racist practices) shapes U.S. society and the
social sciences.
Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor at Texas A&M University, acquired
his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1966. Feagin has served as
the scholar-in-residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and writ-
ten 55 scholarly books in his research areas, one of which (Ghetto Revolts)
was nominated for a Pulitzer. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni
Association lifetime award and was the 2000 president of the American
Sociological Association.
Frank Furedi is a professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canter-
bury, England. In recent years his work was devoted to an exploration of the
workings of the culture of fear. Since publishing The Culture of Fear (1997)
he has written several books on the subject, the latest being Invitation to Ter-
ror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (2007). He is now engaged in a
study of the relations between changing ideas of authority and the meaning
of education. His The End of Education will be published in October 2009.
Herbert J. Gans is Robert S. Lynd Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Co-
lumbia University. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Imagining
America in 2033 (2008), was the 1988 president of the American Socio-
logical Association, and received the association’s Career of Distinguished
Scholarship Award in 2006.
Norval D. Glenn received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin,
where he is now Ashbel Smith Professor in Sociology and Stiles Professor in
American Studies. His research and scholarly interests include various top-
ics concerning family relations and aging and the life course and, recently,
the dissemination of social science findings to the lay public.
John Hagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. He is John D.
MacArthur Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, professor at
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Northwestern University School of Law, and co-director of the Center on Law
and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation. His book (with Bill Mc-
Carthy) Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness received the Michael Hin-
delang Award from the American Society of Criminology and the C. Wright
Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has been
awarded the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his pioneering applica-
tion of advanced crime measurement techniques to the analysis of genocide in
Darfur and in the Balkans, and for his earlier study of the development of the
International Criminal Tribunal published in his book Justice in the Balkans.
Ruth Horowitz, professor at New York University, received her Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago. Her earlier work includes Honor and the American
Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicago Community (1983) which received
the C. Wright Mills Award, Honorable Mention, and Teen Mothers, Citizens
or Dependents? (1994), which won the C. H. Cooley Award.
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International
Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She received her
Ph.D. (1976) from McGill University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada. She is the author most recently of Reparations to Africa (2008)
and The Second Great Transformation: Human Rights Leapfrogging in the Era of
Globalization (under review).
Lina Hu is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California,
Berkeley. She received Master of Arts degrees in sociology from Tsinghua
University, China, in 2007, and from the University of California, Berkeley,
in 2009.
Vincent Jeffries received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los
Angeles. He is professor of sociology at California State University, North-
ridge. He is the author (with H. Edward Ransford) of Social Stratification: A
Multiple Hierarchy Approach. In recent years his scholarly work has focused
on developing Pitirim A. Sorokin’s integral theory, and on research regard-
ing the virtues and marriage and family relationships.
Robert Kleidman is associate professor of sociology at Cleveland State Uni-
versity. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
His research interests include community organizing, engaged scholarship,
and social movements. He is author of Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the
Test Ban, and the Freeze (1993).
Elizabeth Dermody Leonard is professor of sociology at Vanguard Uni-
versity of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University
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of California, Riverside, in 1997. Dr. Leonard’s main areas of research,
teaching, and scholarship are intimate partner violence, women prisoners,
and child sexual abuse. She has been a visiting professor at the University
of Limerick, Ireland, and is the author of Convicted Survivors: The Imprison-
ment of Battered Woman Who Kill (2002). Her research has been used by
legislators, law professors, advocates for convicted battered women, and
documentary filmmakers, and has provided the basis for the play by War-
ren Doody, Life without Parole.
Damon Mayrl is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley. His areas of interest include political sociology, the sociology
of religion, and comparative and historical methods. His dissertation exam-
ines how and why secularization produces dissimilar institutional effects in
similar countries.
Bill McCarthy received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (1990).
He studies crime. His current research on teenage romantic relationships
and offending has recently appeared in the American Sociological Review. His
and John Hagan’s book, Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (1997),
received the Michael Hindelang Award from the American Society of Crimi-
nology and the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social
Problems.
Raymond A. Morrow is professor of sociology at the University of Alberta,
Edmonton. His Critical Theory and Methodology (1994) received a Choice
Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award, and his most recent book (with
C. A. Torres) is Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transforma-
tive Change (2002).
Jennifer Mueller is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Texas A&M Univer-
sity. Her research interests include racial and ethnic relations, structures of
privilege, and media/popular culture. She is currently investigating the inter-
generational transmission of wealth and “racial” capital among U.S. families;
how this process is influenced by the structural/institutional context; and
how this has served as a primary means for the social reproduction of racial
inequality.
Lawrence T. Nichols is professor of sociology at West Virginia University, and
also serves as editor of The American Sociologist. Dr. Nichols has published
widely in the fields of criminology, social problems theory, and the history
of sociology, where he has focused especially on the career and writings of
Pitirim A. Sorokin.
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Samuel P. Oliner received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berke-
ley. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Humboldt State University and
founder and director of the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior In-
stitute. He is the author and co-author of several dozen publications on the
Holocaust, altruism, prosocial behavior, and national and international race
relations. His latest book is titled Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness, and
Reconciliation (2008).
Pamela Oliver received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.
Her longtime research interest is collective action and social movements; she
has been working slowly on a book linking repression theory to black incar-
ceration patterns. In 2007–2008 she was the only academic appointed to the
Wisconsin governor’s special commission on racial disparities and currently
serves on a local task force on racial disparities.
Caroline Hodges Persell earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and
is professor of sociology at New York University. A past vice president of the
American Sociological Association, her books include How Sampling Works
(with Richard Maisel); Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools
(with Peter W. Cookson Jr.); and Education and Inequality. She has received
teaching awards from the American Sociological Association and New York
University. She is currently conducting research on racial variations in educa-
tional achievement.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a member of
the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.columbia
.edu/~sjs2/). Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval
to Global Assemblages (2008), and A Sociology of Globalization (2007). She has
completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement
based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries: it is
published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
(EOLSS) [www.eolss.net]. Her books are translated into nineteen languages.
She has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le
Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,
the Financial Times, and Huffington.com, among others.
Edward A. Tiryakian is professor emeritus of sociology at Duke University.
He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard
University. He is the past president of the American Society for the Study of
Religion and of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists.
Recent publications include “Introduction” to Pitirim Sorokin The United
States and Russia (2007) and For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural
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Sociology, forthcoming. He is currently doing research for a book-length study
to be entitled America as the First Protestant Nation.
Laurel Westbrook received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
California, Berkeley, and is an assistant professor of sociology at Grand Val-
ley State University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, violence,
post-structuralist theory, social movements, and, of course, public sociology.
Her other recent publications include “Vulnerable Subjecthood: The Risks
and Benefits of the Struggle for Hate Crime Legislation,” in the 2008 volume
of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and “Becoming Knowably Gendered: The
Production of Transgender Possibilities and Constraints in the Mass and
Alternative Press from 1990 to 2005 in the United States,” forthcoming in
Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity, edited by
Sally Hines and Tam Sanger.