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  • Contributors' Notes

Ariel Calderon was a sophomore student in the 2008 Chicago version of Doc Your Bloc at the Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice (SOJO).

Luis Carrera was a freshman student in the 2008 Chicago version of Doc Your Bloc at the Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice.

Janet Galligani Casey is Visiting Professor of English and American Studies at Skidmore College. She is the author of Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine (1998) and A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (2009). She has also edited Te Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction (2004), and is a founding member of the Middlebrow Research Network.

Christopher Craig is an Assistant Professor at Emmanuel College in Boston, where he teaches American literature and Literary Theory. His academic interests include World War II, early Postwar and Cold War literature, Working Class literature, and Marxist literary theory. He is currently at work on a book titled At War in The New Yorker: World War II and the Politics of Liberalism. [End Page 78]

Perin Gurel is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a graduate associate for the University's Women, Religion, and Globalization Project.

Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at George Mason University. He is the author of Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the C old War (California, 1996) and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex (Minnesota, 2004). He is co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger (Minnesota, 1999), Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (California, 2005), and Te Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual (Prickly Paradigm, 2009). Gusterson is a monthly columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His articles have also appeared in New Scientist, Te Sciences, American Scientist, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and in such academic journals as the American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Social Research, Alternatives, and Science, Technology and Human Values. Gusterson is also co-founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, an organization formed to contest the militarization of anthropology.

LA Harris teaches in Massachusetts.

Sedrick King was a junior student in the 2008 Chicago version of Doc Your Bloc at the Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice.

Mary Jo Klinker is a doctoral student of American Studies and graduate student instructor in Women's Studies at Washing ton State University.

Emily Schnee is an Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York where she teaches composition. For many years, she taught writing to adult students in union-supported worker education programs in New York City.

Robert Singer is a Professor of English at Kingsborough, CUNY and Professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. His areas of expertise include interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics and comparative studies.

David Stovall is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice.

Nisha Thapliyal is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Colgate University where she teaches courses on education, globalization, and gender studies.

Artists:

Kristina Reddy

www.k-illustration.com

Anastasia Mouyis

www.anamouyis.com [End Page 79]

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