Contributing Authors
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Juan Battle is a professor of sociology, public health, and urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.). Prof. Battle is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests include race, sexuality, and social justice. Further, he is a recent president of the Association of Black Sociologists and is actively involved with the American Sociological Association (ASA). He received his A.S. and B.S. from York College of Pennsylvania. His M.A. and PhD. were both received from the University of Michigan.
Anthony Buttaro Jr. is a PhD. candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.). He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. His areas of interest are research methodology, sociology of education, and comparative analysis.
Kristie A. Ford is an assistant professor of sociology at Skidmore College. She received a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. and PhD. in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research and teaching interests include race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and social-justice education.
Venus Green is an associate professor in the Department of History at The City College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 (2001).
Yasuhiro Okado received his M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago and his PhD. in history from Michigan State University. He is a lecturer at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Kinjo Gakuin University, and Nagoya City University, Japan. His research and teaching interests are modern African American history, U.S. history of gender and sexuality, and the issues of race and gender in the U.S.-Japanese relationship. He is currently working on the historical research on the African American experiences in Japan during the U.S. occupation. His recent articles include "Race, Masculinity, and Military Occupation: African American Soldiers' Encounters with the Japanese at Camp Gifu, 1947-1951," The Journal of African American History 96, no. 2 (2011); and "'Cold War Black Orientalism': Race, Gender, and African American Representations of Japanese Women during the Early 1950s," The Journal of American and Canadian Studies 27 (2009).
Kameelah Martin Samuel is an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University. Her teaching and research interests are founded in African American literature and folklore, specifically expressions of African-derived spirituality in twentieth-century fiction. She is currently seeking publication for Conjuring Moments and Other Such Hoodoo: African American Women and Spirit Work, a historiography of the conjure woman as a literary archetype within the African American literary tradition. She is also at work on a second monograph, which is an analysis of visual representations of women and African-based spirit work in popular American film.
Benjamin Sammons is a PhD. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include race, class, and the history and ethics of reading in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. These interests coalesce in his dissertation, "Reforming Readers: Poverty and the Ethics of Reading in American Fiction, 1860-1930," and in his essay, "Flyin' 'Anyplace Else': (Dis)Engaging Traumatic Memory in Three Plays by Pearl Cleage," which is published in Reading Contemporary African Drama (2007).
