Martha Ackelsberg is Professor of Government and Women's Studies at Smith College, where she teaches courses on urban politics, feminist theory, political theory, social movements, and the politics of wealth and poverty in the U.S. She has long-standing interests in the “politics of friends and families,” and the restructuring of family life over the past century. Her book, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women has just been reissued by AK Press. She is at work on Making Democracy Work: (Re)Conceiving Politics Through the Lens of Women's Activism.

Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her books include Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America (Garland, 1998); Black and Multiracial Politics in America (co-author; New York University Press, 2001); African Military History and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, 2002) and Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). She currently serves as Reviews Editor for African and Asian Studies Journal.

Rosie Campbell is Lecturer in Research Methods at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research specialties are gender and voting; and gender, participation, and representation. She is currently working on the 2005 British general election and is part of the British Representation Study 2005. Her book, Gender and Voting in Britain, will be published with the ECPR Press in 2006.

Susan J. Carroll is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is author of Women as Candidates in American Politics, 2^nd ed. (Indiana University Press, 1994); editor of The Impact of Women in Public Office (Indiana University Press, 2001) and Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions (Oxford University Press, 2003); and co-editor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Barbara Cruikshank is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches political theory. She is the author of The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects (Cornell University Press, 1999). She is currently working on two books: Neopolitics, and a geneology of sanitation.

Liesl Haas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests include comparative political institutions, women and politics, and religion and politics. Her article, “Defining a Democracy: Reforming the Laws on Women's Rights in Chile, 1990–2002” (co-authored with Merike H. Blofield), is forthcoming from Latin American Politics and Society. Her book manuscript on feminist policymaking in Chile is currently under review with the Pennsylvania State University Press.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She received her BA from Wake Forest University, her PhD in political science from Duke University, and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Her book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2004), was awarded the 2005 W.E.B. DuBois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. She is at work on a new book: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough.

Ted G. Jelen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Lee G. Hall Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePauw University. He has published extensively on religion and politics, and the politics of abortion, and is the former editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His books include: Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many (co-edited with Clyde Wilcox; Cambridge University Press, 2002); To Serve God and Mammon: Church-State Relations in the United States (Perseus, 2000); and The Political World of the Clergy (Prager, 1993).

Ilja A. Luciak, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a JD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Iowa. For the past 20 years he has conducted field research in Latin America, focusing on gender equality and democratization. His latest book is After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). He is currently concluding a multi-year study on “Gender Equality and Democratization in Central America and Cuba” for the European Commission.

V. Spike Peterson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona, with courtesy appointments in Women's Studies, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and International Studies. She edited and contributed to Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (Lynne Rienner, 1992), and co-authored (with Anne Sisson Runyan) Global Gender Issues (Westview, 1993, 1999). Her most recent book is A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (Routledge, 2003).

Claire Rasmussen (PhD, University of Washington, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delaware. She specializes in late modern and contemporary continental political and social theory. Her research examines the cultural construction of identity. Her current project is an examination of the relationship between marriage and the liberal state. She teaches in the areas of political theory and public law, and serves as associated faculty in the Women's Studies and Legal Studies Departments.

C. Heike Schotten is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she teaches political theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She hopes that her work contributes in some small way to the fomenting of feminist revolution.

Jacqueline Stevens is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton, 1999). Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Social Text. She is presently writing a book manuscript on “States without Nations” and coordinates a related website commissioned by Tate Online at www.agoraxchange.net.

Clyde Wilcox is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He writes on gender politics, religion and politics, social movements and interest groups, campaign finance, and social issues such as gay rights and abortion. His recent books include Women in Elected Office: Past, Present, and Future, 2^nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates (Columbia University Press, 2001), and Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many (Cambridge University Press, 2002).