Contributors
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sierra austin is a PhD student in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University with research and teaching interests in representation, girlhood studies, black feminisms, and critical discourse analysis. She received her ba from Wilberforce University (Ohio) in mass media communication in 2010. She received her ma in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from The Ohio State University in 2012.
bernadette marie calafell, who received her PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Denver. She thanks the reviewers and editors for their support and helpful feedback.
yin-zu Chen is an assistant professor of sociology at the National Taipei University, Taiwan. She received her PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is member of the Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association. Her current research topics include gender in collective actions, young feminists’ movements, the transnational public sphere, and digital media, with a special focus on Latin American countries.
cecilia conrad, PhD, is a professor emerita of economics at Pomona College. Conrad’s academic research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status. Her work on affirmative action, black women’s economic status, racial stereotypes, and income inequality has appeared in both academic journals and nonacademic publications, including the American Prospect, Black Enterprise, and the New York Times. Her coedited book, African Americans in the US Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), was designated a choice Academic Title of Year in 2005. Her other edited books include Aids, Gender, Sexuality and Development (Routledge) and Building Skills for Black [End Page 207] Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market (University Press of America). She has written policy monographs on African Americans and high-tech jobs, the public workforce system’s impact on labor market disparities, the California science and technology labor market, and soft skills and race. Conrad is the editor of the Review of Black Political Economy and a member of the editorial board of Feminist Economics.
Conrad is a past president of the National Economic Association and of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She was the founding director of the American Economic Association’s (aea’s) Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (csmgep)’s mentoring program. She was a member of the aea’s Committee on Economics Education and is serving a second term on the aea’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
Conrad received her ba degree from Wellesley College and her PhD in economics from Stanford University.
adrienne dixson, PhD, is a former middle grades teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dixson currently serves as an associate professor of critical race theory and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship examines the intersectionality of race, class, and gender in urban educational contexts, with a particular interest in how these issues impact educational equity for students and people of color in the urban South. Currently, she is engaged in a long-term research project on stakeholders’ perceptions of school reform in post-Katrina New Orleans. Her work is widely published in academic journals and edited books. Her most recent books include Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a Song (Routledge), Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education (Routledge), Resegregation of Schools: Education and Race in the 21st Century (Routledge), and the forthcoming Researching Race in Education: Policy, Practice and Qualitative Research (iap Publishing).
patti duncan is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Oregon State University, where she specializes in transnational feminist theories and movements, women-of-color feminisms, and feminist media studies. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press) and numerous articles about women of color, feminist pedagogies, transnational feminisms, and the effects of militarism on women and gender in Asia. She is coproducer and director of Finding Face (2009), a documentary film. Her current research focuses [End Page 208] on narratives of rescue, migration, and motherhood in representations of women in the global South.
gisell jeter-bennett is a PhD candidate in...
