John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directs the African and African American Studies Program. He is the author of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice (Oxford, 2000) and Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice (University of Texas, 1999). He also serves as Director of the American Linguistic Heritage Survey, an ongoing study sponsored by the Ford Foundation to examine the prevalence of linguistic profiling in the United States.
Sandra K. Danziger is Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work, Research Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests are the effects of public programs and policies on the well-being of disadvantaged families; her current research examines barriers to employment among single mothers making the transition from welfare to work. She is a principal investigator on the Women's Employment Study. Danziger previously researched how Michigan's General Assistance welfare recipients fared after this income support program was terminated. Another previous study looked at perceived life options and teen motherhood among inner-city youth.
Sheldon Danziger is the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Research Professor at the Population Studies Center, and Director of the Ford Foundation Program on Poverty and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood. Danziger is co-author of America Unequal (1995) and Detroit Divided (2000), and co-editor of numerous books, including Understanding Poverty (2002) and Working and Poor (forthcoming). He is currently conducting research on how the 1996 welfare reform affected the work effort, family income, and material well-being of single mothers.
William W. Falk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is an affiliate member of the faculties in African American Studies and American Studies. His research on the U.S. South has resulted most recently in three related projects: (1) an ethnographic/oral history- produced book, Rooted in Place: Family and Belonging in a Southern Black Community (Rutgers University Press, 2004); (2) an edited volume drawing together a range of studies (including his own) on rural areas and issues, Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts (Ohio University Press, 2003); and (3) an article (with Larry Hunt and Matthew Hunt), “Return Migrations of African-Americans to the South: Reclaiming a Land of Promise, Going Home, or Both?” (Rural Sociology, 2004).
Stanley Feldman is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. His interests include political psychology, public opinion and political ideology, political intolerance, and prejudice. He has published articles on these topics in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and in other journals and edited volumes. He is currently co-editor of Political Psychology.
Tyrone Forman is Associate Professor of African American Studies and of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. His scholarly and teaching interests focus on intergroup prejudice and discrimination, American youth and public opinion, adolescent health and well-being, survey research methods, and African American fathers. His work on these topics has appeared in a number of social science journals, including Social Problems, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Discourse and Society, Race and Society, Perspectives on Social Problems, Youth and Society, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Journal of Negro Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Health Education and Behavior, and Research in Political Sociology.
Paul Frymer is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Legal Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
David Theo Goldberg directs the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Critical Theory Institute, at the University of California at Irvine. He has authored several books, including The Racial State (Basil Blackwell, 2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Basil Blackwell, 1993). He has also edited many books, including Anatomy of Racism (University of Minnesota Press, 1990), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Basil Blackwell, 1995), and Race Critical Theories (Basil Blackwell, 2001). His current monograph, The Death of Race, will be published by Basil Blackwell in 2006.
David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. He is carrying out research on whether and why gender, racial, and class-based inequalities are growing stronger or weaker; whether and why they differ in strength across countries; and how such changes and differences are best measured. His recent books are Poverty and Inequality (with Ravi Kanbur, Stanford University Press, 2006), Mobility and Inequality (with Stephen Morgan and Gary Fields, Stanford University Press, 2006), The Declining Significance of Gender? (with Francine Blau and Mary Brinton, Russell Sage, 2006), Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender (with Szonja Szelényi, Westview Press, 2006), and Occupational Ghettos (with Maria Charles, Stanford University Press, 2004).
Cedric Herring is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. Herring is former President of the Association of Black Sociologists, and he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. He publishes on topics such as social policy, stratification and inequality, and the sociology of African Americans. He has published five books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent books are Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era (2003) and The State of the State of Illinois (2006). He has received support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, among others, and he has shared his research in community forums, in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, before government officials, and at the United Nations.
Leonie Huddy is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Survey Research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her general field of interest is the psychological origins and dynamics of public opinion and intergroup relations. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology and co-editor of the journal Political Psychology. She has written extensively on the application of psychological theories concerning intergroup relations to political beliefs and attitudes, with a special emphasis on race, ethnic, and gender relations. She is currently working with Stanley Feldman on a large project investigating the ideological and prejudicial nature of White racial policy attitudes.
Larry L. Hunt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park. His primary research interests are in the intersections of religion, race, and region. Past work includes studies on African American Catholicism in the urban North; the growth of Hispanic Protestantism in the United States and Latin America; and the emerging “return migration” of African Americans to the U.S. South, including religious and ideological factors shaping the selectivity of this migration pattern.
Matthew O. Hunt is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. His primary research interests are in the areas of social psychology, race/ethnicity, and social stratification. Past publications include studies of race/ethnic differences in ideological beliefs about inequality and justice, the relationship between self-evaluation and stratification beliefs, the neglect of race/ethnicity in social psychology, and intersections of race, region, and religion in the United States. This work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, and other publications. His current work examines relationships between race/ethnicity (and other social structural factors) and a variety of outcomes including stratification beliefs, racial attitudes, identity processes, and patterns of interregional migration within the United States.
Grace Kao is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is a principal investigator (with Kara Joyner) on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) project “Interracial Friendship and Romance among Adolescents.” Recent publications include “Interracial Relationships and the Transition to Adulthood” (with Kara Joyner, in American Sociological Review), “The Salience of Racial and Ethnic Identification in Friendship Choices Among Hispanic Adolescents” (with Elizabeth Vaquera, in Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences), and “Stability of Interracial and Intraracial Romantic Relationships among Adolescents” (with Hongyu Wang and Kara Joyner, forthcoming in Social Science Research). Currently, with support from the Spencer Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation, Kao is examining early childhood outcomes of immigrant youth.
Amanda E. Lewis is Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and African American Studies and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on how race shapes educational opportunities and on how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life. Her recent publications include Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color-Line in Classrooms and Communities (Rutgers University Press, 2003), The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity (with Maria Krysan, Russell Sage, 2004), and Challenging Racism in Higher Education: Promoting Justice (with Mark Chesler and Jim Crowfoot, Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2005). She is currently at work on a new book, tentatively titled Carte Blanche: Race and the Failure of American Meritocracy.
John Lie is Class of 1959 Professor and Dean of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His recent books include Multiethnic Japan (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Modern Peoplehood (Harvard University Press, 2004.) His next two books will be The Korean Diaspora and Violence, both to be published by the University of California Press.
Robert C. Lieberman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has written widely on the politics of race, social policy, and American political development. He is the author of the prize-winning Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (2001) and, most recently, Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (2005).
Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A writer, historian, and longtime political activist, Ransby is author of the award-winning biography Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (2003), as well as numerous essays and articles on race, gender, social justice, and Black radicalism. In addition to her book awards, Ransby is also the recipient of the 2004 Catherine Prelinger Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History for her contributions to women's history, and she now serves as the National Chair of the Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association. Ransby is currently working on a biography of writer and anticolonialism activist Eslanda Goode Robeson (1896–1965).
Emily Ryo is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. She is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her main areas of research include social stratification, inequality, international migration, race and ethnicity, and the sociology of law. Her current work involves constructing a theory of illegal migration that pays particular attention to normative values of undocumented immigrants with respect to U.S. immigration law and their implications for inequality. Ryo holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and in 2006–2007 she will be serving as a judicial clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Dara Z. Strolovitch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on interest groups and social movements, and the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Georgetown's Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, and a Faculty Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Advanced Study. Strolovitch's work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) Journal, and Social Science Quarterly, and has received awards from the Midwest Political Science Association, the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Her book, Affirmative Advocacy, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007.
Kathryn A. Sweeney received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University in 2006. Her research interests focus on stratification and include race and racism, gender inequality, and the family. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Negotiating Power: Power, Race and Gender Ideology in Same-Race and Interracial Marriage,” explores how societal inequalities and privilege related to gender, race, and resources translate into heterosexual marriage dynamics.
Dorian T. Warren is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. His research and teaching interests include race and ethnic politics, labor politics, urban politics, American political development, social movements, and social science methodology. Warren received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has been a Post-Doctoral Scholar and Visiting Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and has received research fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the University of Notre Dame.
Alford A. Young, Jr., is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (Princeton University Press, 2004) and co-authored The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). He also has published articles in Sociological Theory, the Annual Review of Sociology, and other journals. Young is currently involved in studies of how low-income African American men and women in both large and small municipalities make sense of the world of work and work opportunity, and how African America men contemplate and prepare for fatherhood.
