Contributors’ Notes
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Shana Agid is Assistant Professor of Art, Media + Technology at Parsons the New School for Design, teaching design research, writing, and book arts. Shana is a Radical Teacher board member and the journal’s art director.
Laura Barraclough is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Kalamazoo College, where she directs the Public Policy and Urban Affairs concentration and teaches courses on prisons, racism, cities, and the US-Mexico border. She is the author of Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege (University of Georgia Press, 2010).
Michael Bennett is Professor of English at Long Island University (Brooklyn) and has published several academic books and articles, as well as poetry or fiction in The Redneck Review of Literature, Downtown Brooklyn, Podium, and Hawk and Handsaw. He is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher.
Michael Cohen teaches American Studies at the University of California at [End Page 79] Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Berkeley Solidarity Alliance, a coalition of student, worker and faculty groups dedicated to fighting for free higher education in California.
Kate Drabinski holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and teaches gender and sexuality studies at Tulane University. She can also be found riding her bike around New Orleans while thinking about political geographies and weather at http://whati-sawridingmybikearoundtoday.word-press.com.
Daniel Farr is visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Randolph College; his research engages with issues of gender, sexuality, families, and media.
Alejandra Favela (afavela@lclark.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the ESOL/Bilingual Endorsement Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Jessi Lee Jackson is a Chicago-based therapist and anti-prison activist. She can be reached at jessileejack@yahoo.com.
Paul Lai teaches American literature at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. His classes focus on ethnic American literatures and critical histories of American culture. His roundtable discussion for this issue of Radical Teacher is shared with students Elizabeth Corr, Kelly Kraemer, Nick Lankford, and Nathalia Roberts.
Erica R. Meiners teaches and writes and organizes in Chicago. She is the author most recently of Flaunt It! Queers Organizing for Public Education and Justice (2009). Special thanks to the Lillian J. Robinson Program at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for their ongoing commitment to radical feminist scholarship. She can be reached at e-meiners@neiu.edu.
Melissa Ooten holds a Ph.D. in history from the College of William and Mary. She is the associate director of the WILL Program at the University of Richmond where she teaches in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.
Kamala Platt is a writer, artist, professor, activist & independent scholar living and working in South Texas and at the Meadowlark Center. A forthcoming article in a special issue of Works and Days on women and wars comparatively examines cultural resistance to walls and militarization in Palestine and South Texas borderlands.
Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. He is a founding member of Critical Resistance. Rodríguez is the author of multiple articles and essays and two books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Artists:
Lorrie Sue McClary spent 30 years in California prisons and discharged from parole in October 2008.
Timothy D. Clark-Bey, Jamal Biggs, John Bone, Omar L. Brand, Douglas Hanna, Kinnari Jivani, Duane Montney, Alan Norberg, Martin Vargas, have all been in the Michigan state prisons and work with the Prison Creative Arts Project. See www.lsa.umich.edu/english/pcap/ for more information and contact. [End Page 80]
