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317 Contributors Regina Deil-Amen is an assistant professor of education and sociology at Penn State University. She completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern University where she served as a research director for a study entitled “College to Careers” at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research—a mixed-methods case study of how community colleges and private postsecondary vocational colleges prepare students for sub-baccalaureate careers. Her research interests include mechanisms of educational stratification and inequality, the impact of community colleges on student aspirations and persistence, and the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and social class in educational settings. Diane Diamond is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Stony Brook University and has taught at Stony Brook University and College of the Holy Cross. Her doctoral dissertation examines the admission of women to Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Her research interests include gender integration and the attitudes and experiences of women and men in predominantly male institutions. Mary Frances Donley Forcier is a Ph.D. candidate in history and policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as a college, university, and independentschool administrator, as well as a corporate historian. Her dissertation focuses on the policy-making process at four institutions—both men’s and women’s colleges—as they considered coeducation in the post–World War II period. Loretta P. Higgins received her Ed.D. from Boston College. She is the associate dean at Boston College’s Connell School of Nursing. Her research and clinical areas are women’s health and history. She is a contributing editor of Dictionary of American Nursing Biography. In addition to historical research, she is a member of a research team studying partner abuse during pregnancy. She has published articles including “Army Nurses in Wartime: Distinction and Pride,” and has co-authored books on women’s health. CoingCoedFinalPages.indd 317 5/26/04 4:54:36 PM 318 Going Coed Elizabeth L. Ihle earned her Ed.D. at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1976 with an emphasis on the history of education. She has written about the history of African-American women’s education and women’s higher education in the South. She is professor of education and coordinator of secondary education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Michael S. Kimmel is professor of sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He began his college career at an all-male college, transferred to a formerly all-female college (Vassar), and was in its first coeducational graduating class. His books include Changing Men (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), Men’s Lives (5th edition, 2000), Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776–1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996), and The Gendered Society (2000). He was an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in the VMI and Citadel litigation and testified in those trials. He edits Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, is the spokesperson for the National Organization for Men against Sexism (NOMAS), and lectures extensively on campuses in the United States and abroad. Christine M. Lundt earned her Ph.D. in the social foundations of education at the University at Buffalo in New York. Her current professional interests include community-based education for adults, especially women. Leslie Miller-Bernal earned her Ph.D. in the sociology of development at Cornell University in 1979. She has previously published Separate by Degree: Women Students’ Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges (2000) and articles comparing the experiences of women at coeducational and women’s colleges. Since 1975 she has taught sociology at Wells College in Aurora, New York. Susan Gunn Pevar earned her B.A. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and is working on an M.A. in history from West Chester University (Pa.). Since 2000 she has been the archivist assistant at Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Susan L. Poulson is a professor of history at the University of Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania. She teaches women’s history and recent U.S. history. Her publications address gender and higher education in the past fifty years. She and Leslie Miller-Bernal are currently studying how women’s colleges have fared since the 1960s. CoingCoedFinalPages.indd 318 5/26/04 4:54:36 PM [54.172.169.199] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 03:54 GMT) Contributors 319 Marcia G. Synnott earned her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...