Rick Baldoz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Race, Class, and Conflict in Filipino America, 1898–1946 (2009). He is also coeditor of The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production (2001).
Rachelle Brunn received a BA with distinction in sociology and political science from the University of Delaware in 2002. She received her MA in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and was awarded a graduate certificate in urban studies in 2007. She received a 2007–2008 Association for the Study of Higher Education/Lumina Foundation for Education Dissertation Fellowship. She plans to complete her PhD in sociology in 2008. Her research and teaching interests include the intersection of race, class, and gender; race and ethnic relations; the sociology of education; urban studies; and public policy. In the fall of 2008, she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
Mick P. Couper is Research Professor in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and Research Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). He holds a PhD in sociology from Rhodes University, an MA in applied social research from the University of Michigan, and an MSocSc from the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on a wide range of survey methodological issues, including nonresponse, self-administered surveys, and the application of technology to the survey data-collection process. He is the author of Designing Effective Web Surveys (2008) and coauthor, with Robert Groves, of Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys (1998).
Paul Anthony Dottin is Director of the Culture/Language/Theory Program at the Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China. He holds a PhD in comparative studies (theory and historical context) from Florida Atlantic University, two MA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (one in ethnic studies and another in anthropology), and a BA in sociology from Binghamton University. In addition, he is finishing his dissertation in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is completing a book manuscript on the cultural dimension of African American reparations. His current fieldwork project is an ethnography of foreign-born persons of color living in Central China.
Frédérick Guillaume Dufour is Professor of Sociology at the University of Quebec, Montreal, and Researcher and Chair of Studies on Globalization, Citizenship, and Democracy at the same university. He received his PhD in political science from York University (Toronto) in 2005, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Relations at Sussex University (Brighton) and at the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He publishes in the fields of historical sociology and in social and political theory. His current work is on the sociohistorical development of capitalism and nationalism in Europe and in critical social and political theory.
Rita Kiki Edozie is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University. She is the author of People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989–1999 (2002) and Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics (2008). She has contributed articles and book chapters to several edited volumes and scholarly journals. In 2009, with Peyi Soyinika-Airewele, Edozie is expected to release Reframing Contemporary Africa: Politics, Economics and Culture in a Global Era (2009). Edozie earned her PhD in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York City, and she was also Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
Reynolds Farley, a demographer, is Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center and the Otis Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus of Sociology. After earning his degree from the University of Chicago, he taught at Duke University and the University of Michigan. His research has focused on current population trends in the United States with an emphasis on racial issues. The findings reported in “In the Eye of the Beholder” in this issue build upon survey research, begun in 1975, which he and his collaborators have conducted about racial issues and the causes of residential segregation in metropolitan Detroit.
Grace Kao is Director of the Asian American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago, and her AB in sociology and Oriental languages (Chinese) from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on racial, ethnic, and immigrant differences in educational outcomes among youth. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Spencer Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Population Association of America and on the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Social Psychology Quarterly.
Maria Krysan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her investigations of racial residential segregation and racial attitudes often connect to methodological questions about how to study this sensitive area of social life. She combines standard closed-ended survey analysis with experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, and in-depth interviews. In addition to her publications in a range of social science journals, she is also coauthor (with Howard Schuman, Lawrence Bobo, and Charlotte Steeh) of the award-winning book Racial Attitudes in American: Trends and Interpretations (1997), and is responsible for a website that updates the data from that book: http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/programs/racialAttitudes. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, is on the editorial board of Public Opinion Quarterly, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey.
Dena Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. Her research focuses on women and minorities in Congress, particularly how their increasing number in office affects legislative behavior and policy outcomes. She has published articles in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Women & Politics, PS: Political Science, and several book chapters about congressional elections. She is coauthor of Hillary Clinton: A Biography (2007).
Jay A. Pearson is Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Population Study Center. He received his PhD in health behavior and health education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health in 2006. He completed a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2008. His primary research interests include conceptualization and measurement of racial and ethnic categories, cultural orientations associated with these and their influence on access to and application of both conventional and alternative socioeconomic resources. His current research explores the influence of transnationalism and immigration on social inequalities and racial/ethnic disparities in health.
Marek D. Steedman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received a PhD in political theory from the University of Michigan. Steedman's research is on the relation between race and the liberal and republican traditions in American political thought. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he is particularly interested in the challenges posed by industrialization to both existing social hierarchies and traditional conceptions of democratic practice. Publications include “Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1879,” in Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (2005).
Charles Tien is Associate Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His recent research has appeared in International Journal of Forecasting, Research in Political Sociology, and Defense Analysis. His current research is on American foreign policy making.
