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Fredrik Bondestam is a sociologist specializing in several areas, including teaching gender and gendering teaching in different educational systems, critical and feminist pedagogy, risk and masculinities in organizations, and integrating and mainstreaming gender equality. He has published several groundbreaking texts on gender and education, dealing foremost with questions on how to overcome invisible and structural obstacles in teaching and learning gender, not the least in international contexts concerning education for peace and security. At the moment he is finishing a three-year project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, on feminist teaching and learning in different learning cultures, as well as conducting an analysis of research on gender equality in schools for DEJA—the Delegation for Gender Equality in Schools.

Patricia Boling teaches political science at Purdue University, specializing in feminist theory, public policy, and women and the law. Her scholarship revolves around transitions from private to public and comparative work-family policies. She teaches feminist pedagogy and is interested in bioethics and the privatized discourses that surround prenatal testing, weight, and surrogacy arrangements.

Llana Carroll is currently a language lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. She has a forthcoming book chapter on G. E. Moore’s impact on the Bloomsbury Group’s philosophy of friendship, and she is developing a writing project on the relationship between psychoanalytic and composition pedagogies. She graduated with a PhD degree in English: Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

Catherine Emmanuelle is completing her undergraduate degree in women’s studies and a minor in American minorities, inequalities, and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A former candidate for city council and civic engagement coach, Emmanuelle will pursue a graduate degree in public policy upon graduation.

Courtney Jarrett is the associate director of disabled student development and an affiliate faculty member in the women’s [End Page 175] and gender studies program at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is currently completing her dissertation, entitled Bringing the Community to Campus: An Oral History of Women’s Week at Ball State University.

Colleen Martell is currently teaching feminist philosophy at Cedar Crest College and American studies at Lehigh University, where she received her PhD degree in English in May 2011.

Betty Rae Matthews is finishing her academic career majoring in English and minoring in women’s studies. She will continue her life education through feminist activism, writing, traveling, meeting new people, engaging with the people she already knows, and waiting for Harriet J to blog more on fugitives.net.

Petra Mohr is a graduate student in technical and professional communication at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. Her current research interests include the textual politics of the editor-author relationship and feminist editing.

Emily Murdock teaches composition and literature at Mineral Area College in Park Hill, Missouri. She earned her MA degree at Truman State University in 2010 and her BA degree in English from Truman State University in 2008.

Lynnette S. Noblitt is the interim chair and a professor in the department of government at Eastern Kentucky University. Ms. Noblitt received a BS degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University. She received a JD degree from The University of Michigan Law School and a MS degree in biological chemistry from the University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School. Ms. Noblitt practiced intellectual property law at the Fish & Neave Intellectual Property Group of Ropes & Gray in New York, where her practice focused predominantly on patent litigation and licensing and trademark prosecution.

Gary Perry is an associate professor of sociology at Seattle University. He is also affiliated with the global African studies and women’s studies programs at Seattle University. Dr. Perry received his doctorate in sociology from The University of Nebraska—Lincoln in 2005. His scholarly areas include urban sociology, intersectionality studies, and social movements in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Dr. Perry has published writings and commentary on the politics of white racism in higher education, Black pro-feminist masculinity, and the recovery process in post–Katrina New Orleans. He is currently working on a film project and a book that explore the struggles, resistance, and resilience of Hurricane Katrina survivors. Dr. Perry...

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