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199 Contributors Lisa Doris Alexander is assistant professor of Africana studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. She received her Ph.D. in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University. Her research deals with issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in professional sports and popular culture. Roy F. Fox is professor of English education in the Department of Learning, Teaching,and Curriculum at the University of Missouri.His research focuses on the teaching and learning of writing as well as media literacy—especially how people interact with television, film, and advertising messages. In addition to numerous chapters, articles, and professional recognitions, he is the author of several books, including Images in Language, Media, and Mind; Harvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control Kids; and MediaSpeak: Three American Voices and is the founder of the Lewis and Clark Center for Integrated Learning and the Mizzou Men for Excellence in Elementary Teaching Program, which seeks to recruit and develop high-caliber male elementary teachers. Gregory J. Kaliss is visiting assistant professor of American studies at Franklin and Marshall College.He received his Ph.D.in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He has published in the Journal of Sport History and is currently revising his dissertation, Everyone’s All-Americans: Race, Men’s College Athletics, and the Ideal of Equal Opportunity, for publication. Jeffrey Lane, author of Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball (University of Nebraska Press), is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton. He is the founder and director of Schoolhouse Tutors, a mentoring program for middle and high school students in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Robert F. Lewis II is a retired corporate executive who earned his doctorate in American studies from the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball (University Press of Mississippi). Contributors 200 Thabiti Lewis is associate professor of English and African American literature at Washington State University–Vancouver. He has written about twentieth-century African American literature, images of modern athletes, and race.He has edited two special journal issues,“On Masculinities”(AmeriQuests ) and“AfricanAmerican Life and Culture”(the Willamette Journal).He is a former columnist and radio talk show host and has contributed freelance to The Source, the St. Louis American, and News One. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (Third World Press). Shelley Lucas is associate professor of kinesiology at Boise State University, where she teaches courses in history, sociology, and philosophy of exercise and sport. Her areas of interest include women’s sport history, gender equity in athletics, and media representations of gender, race, and sexuality in sport. Jack Lule is the Joseph B. McFadden Distinguished Professor of Journalism and the director of the Globalization and Social Change Initiative at Lehigh University. His research interests include globalization and media, international communication, international news reporting, cultural and critical studies of news, online journalism, and teaching with technology. He is the author of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism (Guilford Press).Called“a landmark book in the sociology of news,”the book argues that ancient myths can be found daily in the pages of the news. The author of more than forty scholarly articles and book chapters, he is also a member of the editorial board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and Critical Studies in Media Communication. His current book is a study of globalization and the media. Roberta J. Newman teaches in the Foundation Studies program at New York University, where she teaches a course on baseball. She is the author and coauthor of numerous articles on sports and is the coauthor of a book-length study of the economic ramifications of desegregated Major League Baseball on the African American business community. David C. Ogden is associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he has taught since 2001. His research focuses on cultural trends in baseball, specifically the history of the relationship between African Americans and baseball. He has presented his [3.141.8.247] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 21:21 GMT) Contributors 201 research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the NINE Spring Training Conference on Baseball and Culture, and Indiana State University’s Conference on Baseball in Culture and Literature. He has published in NINE...