Notes on Contributors
Brooke A. Ackerly is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (2000); "Women's Human Rights Activists as Cross-Cultural Theorists," International Journal of Feminist Politics (2001); "Is Liberal Democracy the Only Way? Confucianism and Democracy," Political Theory (2005); and Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge forthcoming). In collaboration with Jacqui True, she is also working on a guidebook for feminist research, Doing Feminist Research in Social and Political Sciences (Palgrave forthcoming). (brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu)
Christina M. Bellon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Practical and Professional Ethics at California State University, Sacramento. Her teaching and research interests lie broadly in practical and theoretical ethics, with special interest in human rights and theories of justice. Her current projects include an examination of the development of children's rights in the human rights tradition and their potential to function as cross-cultural standards for justice for children, and the application of human rights theory to justify the appeal to humanitarian violations as a limiting factor on state sovereignty. (bellon@saclink.csus.edu)
Paul Benson is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton. He works in the areas of ethics, action theory, and social philosophy, and has published widely on autonomy, free agency, moral responsibility, and oppressive socialization. (Paul.Benson@notes.udayton.edu)
Jane Monica Drexler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty of Women's Studies at Kent State University-Stark Campus. Her current research centers on retheorizing feminist political concepts such as inclusion and recognition through the lens of an Arendtian focus on political action. She has published essays on Iris Marion Young, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jürgen Habermas. (jdrexler@kent.edu)
Michaele L. Ferguson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Junior Faculty Affiliate with the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her interests are in feminist and democratic theory. She is coeditor (with Lori Marso) of W Stands [End Page 230] for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (2007). She is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled "Sharing Democracy." (michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu)
Margret Grebowicz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Goucher College. Her research explores the intersections of contemporary French philosophy and American feminist thought, with particular attention to epistemological questions. She is editor of Gender after Lyotard (2007) and Scifi in the Mind's Eye: Reading Science through Science Fiction (2007), and coeditor of Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan (2004). In addition to her ongoing work on Jean-François Lyotard's writings, she has published articles and book chapters on Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Antonio Negri, Donna Haraway, and Paul Feyerabend. She is also a widely published translator of poetry from her native Polish, with translations appearing in journals such as Poetry International, Agni, World Literature Today, and Field. (margret.grebowicz@goucher.edu)
Emily Grosholz is Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. She is editor of The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir (2004) and author of Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences (2007). She and Christine Clark-Evans will team teach an interdisciplinary seminar on African American Philosophy in spring 2008, supported by a grant from the NEH and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State. (erg2@psu.edu)
Cheryl Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. Her research to date has focused on the political significance of concepts of reason and passion in political theory. Her publications include, "Feminism's Essential Eros" (2000), "Reason, Passion, and Politics in Rousseau" (2001), "'Passions and Constraint': The Marginalization of Passion in Liberal Political Theory" (2002), and The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory beyond the Reign of Reason (2005). (chall@cas.usf.edu)
Christine Keating is Assistant...
