Contributors' Notes
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Joe Berry is a labor educator, most recently at the University of Illinois, and long-time organizer and activist among contingent faculty in all three major faculty unions, AFT, NEA and AAUP. He is the author of "Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education", Monthly Review Press, 2005.
Regina Dilgen, Ph.D., is a Professor at Palm Beach State College where she also serves as Chair of the Lake Worth Campus English Department.
Alison A. Dobrick, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She also serves as Director of the William Paterson University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. To contact the author, email dobricka@wpunj.edu.
Jennifer Gaboury is the Associate Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Hunter College. She serves on a full-time instructor's line off the tenure track with a 5-4 teaching load.
Paul Hernandez is an Associate Professor at Central Michigan University whose research focuses on sociology of education and social inequality. Dr. Hernandez works with schools to implement a unique pedagogical approach of his own design, which helps teachers and administrators improve passing rates and build meaningful relationships with students at risk of dropping out. [End Page 59]
Keith Kroll has taught for twenty-six years in the English Department at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. His most recent publications are "What I Wish Jill Biden Would Talk About with Respect to America's Community Colleges" (Truthout.org) and Contemplative Teaching and Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2010).
Richard Ohmann is still plugging along.
Susan O'Malley is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher. From 2002-2006 she was Chair of the City University of New York Faculty Senate and Faculty Trustee on the CUNY Board of Trustees.
Brenna Ryan is an attorney in upstate New York. She understands she will go to Hell should she teach for a for-profit university again.
Josh Shepperd is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Media and Cultural Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests include the history of educational technology, curricular theory, and critical pedagogy.
Alison Van Nyhuis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Fayetteville State University, where she recently earned the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2011). Her current research focuses on Caribbean and American literature.
Ellen Schrecker teaches history at Yeshiva University. She is active in the American Association of University Professors, and writes about academic freedom. Her most recent book is The Lost Soul of Higher Education.
Helena Worthen is a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, researching workers' knowledge on the job. She is also Emeritus Associate Clinical Professor of Labor Education at the University of Illinois. She has many years experience in the movement of contingent faculty.
Helena Worthen and Joe Berry are co-authors of numerous articles on contingent faculty as well as "Access to Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Contingent Faculty: A Manual for Applicants and a Strategy to Gain Full Rights and Benefits," with Beverly Stewart, Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, 2008. [End Page 60]
