Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

197 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JOHN R. AIELLO is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University and contributes to the Graduate Program in the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Department. Jack has published more than sixty articles and book chapters and has given more than three hundred invited addresses at professional meetings and business organizations. ROLAND ANGLIN is the director of the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (IRCT) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. The IRCT is a national initiative whose mission is to support the transformation of marginalized communities and people through the production of relevant knowledge and public policy strategies. MIA BAY is an associate professor at Rutgers University and the associate director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. She is the author of two books, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas of White People, 1830–1925 and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. NANCY BOYD-FRANKLIN is a professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. Her research addresses the treatment of African-American families. She has written numerous articles and chapters and five books, including Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience and Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School, and Community Interventions with Dr. Brenna Bry. NIKI T. DICKERSON is an assistant professor in the Department of Labor Studies at Rutgers University. She is concerned with how U.S. racial economic inequality is sustained. Her current work examines the impact of residential segregation on the race gap in unemployment and wages for blacks and Latinos in U.S. metropolitan areas. JEFFREY DOWD is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Rutgers University. He served two years as a graduate assistant at the university’s NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 198 Center for Race and Ethnicity. Jeff teaches courses on race relations, social problems, and minority groups. His research deals with racial inequality and public discourse. ANN FABIAN is dean of humanities and teaches American studies and history at Rutgers University. She writes on the cultural history of the United States in the nineteenth century. Her books include studies of gambling, as well as personal narratives. Her new book, Headhunting: Flatheads, Fijians, and America’s Skull-Collecting Naturalists, will be published in 2010. RICHARD MIZELLE JR. is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Florida State University. His specialization is twentieth-century U.S. social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the history of race and health in America. His current research project examines the social and cultural dimensions of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. KAREN M. O’NEILL is a sociologist and associate professor of human ecology at the School of Environmental and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University. She specializes in contention, inequality, and state power in the United States. O’Neill is author of Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control. WILLIAM M. RODGERS III is a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, and chief economist at its John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research examines issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. His most recent book, The Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, was selected by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association, as an “Outstanding Academic Book” for 2006. EVIE SHOCKLEY is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. Shockley’s scholarly essays include “Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women’s Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry’s The Street” and “The Horrors of Homelessness: Gothic Doubling in Kincaid’s Lucy and Brontë’s Villette,” in Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean Double Crossings (edited by Linda Lang-Peralta). LYRA STEIN is currently a graduate student in the Rutgers psychology doctoral program. She graduated from Rutgers University majoring in biochemistry and psychology and then earned her graduate degree in neuroscience. Her interests include personality predictors of behavior, both in organizations and in virtual environments. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 199 DAVID DANTE TROUTT is a professor of law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers Law School–Newark. In 2006, he edited a collection of essays titled After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina and authored the lead essay, “Many Thousands Gone, Again.” KEITH WAILOO...