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Contributors Jana Nidiffer is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her areas of specialization include both history and gender issues in higher education . Specifically, her research interests focus on access, particularly how higher education serves previously underserved populations, especially women and the economically disadvantaged. She has published many books and articles, the most recent of which is entitled Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Lisa Wolf-Wendel is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education Program within the Department of Teaching and Leadership at the University of Kansas. She earned her doctorate in 1995 from The Claremont Graduate School and her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1987. Her research focuses broadly on equity issues concerning women and people of color in higher education. Laura G. Hensley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Counseling at Louisiana State University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with an emphasis in college counseling. She has researched and published in the area of college student development, wellness , and college women’s issues in counseling. William F. Pinar teaches curriculum theory at Louisiana State University, where he serves as the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor. He has also served as the Frank Tabott Professor at the University of Virginia and the 199 A. Lindsay O’Connor Professor of American Institutions at Colgate University . He is the editor of Queer Theory in Education (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998). Judith Glazer-Raymo is a Professor of Education at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She is the author of Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe (1999), and of books, monographs, and articles on gender, public policy , and faculty issues in higher education. In 2001, she received the Willystine Goodsell Award from AERA and the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement from Long Island University. Kelly Ward is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Washington State University in Pullman. Her research interests are in the area of faculty work and family life, faculty roles and rewards, and service learning. She has held faculty and administrative positions at Oklahoma State University and the University of Montana. She is co-author of The Department Chair’s Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars. Becky Ropers-Huilman is an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University where she is affiliated with the Department of Educational Leadership, Research , and Counseling and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her scholarly interests include race and gender issues in higher education, as well as collegiate teaching and learning. She has published her work in several articles and books, including Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice and Women in Higher Education: A Feminist Perspective. Monisa Shackelford is a doctorate candidate in sociology at Louisiana State University. Over the past decade, her work has focused on stigma and impression management, particularly in relation to disability, mental illness, and nontraditional families. Denise Taliaferro is an Assistant Professor of Education at Miami University of Ohio. Her research and teaching interests focus on the historical, political and philosophical foundations of race, identity and difference as well as their influence on pedagogical philosophies and practices. Ana M. Martínez Alemán is an Assistant Professor of Education at Boston College. Her research activities focus the impact of gender, race and ethnicity on higher education. Her recent publications include “Identity, feminist teaching , and John Dewey” in C. H. Seigfried (Ed.) Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey, and “Community, higher education, and the challenge of multiculturalism ” in Teachers College Record. 200 CONTRIBUTORS ...