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DAWN LEIGH
ANDERSON serves
as the Director of Diversity and Mentoring at the University of Virginia
Women's Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University
of Georgia. Her dissertation won the 2003–2004 Selma Greenberg Outstanding
Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association for
Research on Women and Education. She has taught courses in mathematics education,
multicultural education, and women's studies. In January 2004, she spent
a month in Thailand on a Fulbright-Hays Group Project. Her next international
education travel experience takes her to Seoul, South Korea in summer 2005.ALISON BARTLETT teaches English at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests are in feminist theory, women's writing, and representations of the body. Her previous work includes Jamming the Machinery: Contemporary Australian Women's Writing (1998), Australian Literature and the Public Sphere, ed. (1999), and Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)Elations, ed. (2001). Her most recent work reads breastfeeding as a cultural practice and will be published next year as BreastWork: Rethinking Breastfeeding. SHARON HALEVI is a historian and teaches in the Women's Studies Program and the History Department of the University of Haifa, Israel. Among her research interests is the history of identities, in particular the public and political identities and roles of wives. She has published several articles about Israeli political spouses and the media. ORNA BLUMEN is a social geographer and lectures at the Department of Human Services and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests are gender geography, the sociospatial structure of urban labor markets, and cultural studies. She is currently working on the reflection of home-work relationships in the welfare policies of high technology firms. Halevi and Blumen were among the first graduates of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Haifa and have been teaching courses on women's studies and gender issues for over ten years. They are founding members of the Israel Association for Feminist and Gender Studies and have served on its board; they are currently members of the board of directors of the Jewish-Arab Center. KATHLEEN M. HUNZER has taught at a variety of community colleges and four-year institutions, both public and private. She has primarily taught composition but has also taught literature and film. She earned her Ph.D. in English, specializing in Composition and Rhetoric, from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is now an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. TARA STAR JOHNSON is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at The University of Georgia. Her certifications in Women's Studies and Qualitative Research influence her work with The National Board Research Team, an interdisciplinary collective of professors and graduate students affiliated with the College of Education with whom she works as a Research Fellow. Team members who contributed to this paper are as follows: Mary Bruce is a doctoral student and math teacher at Collins Hill High School in Suwanee, Georgia; Peg Graham is an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education; J. Steve Oliver and Nicholas Oppong are associate professors in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education; Soonhye Park is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education; and Dorann Mansberger is a National Board Certified high school English teacher and an Assistant Principal for Instruction at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. AMBER E. KINSER directs Women's Studies and Speech Communication at East Tennessee State University. She is also working on pedagogical projects that draw on the Vagina Monologues and the most recent March for Women's Lives in Washington. ERIKA M. KREGER is an assistant professor of English at San Jose State University. A specialist in early American women's literary history, she has published articles in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and the collection Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works (University of Georgia Press, 2001). A new piece on magazinist Gail Hamilton is forthcoming in the next issue of Studies in American Humor. She is co-editor of The Letters of Salmon P. Chase and his Daughters (Kent State University Press, 2005). STEPHANIE VANDRICK is Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of San Francisco, where she also teaches women's literature in the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program. She is co-author of Ethical Issues for ESL Faculty: Social Justice in Practice (Erlbaum, 2002), co-editor of Writing for Scholarly Publication: Behind the Scenes in Language Education (Erlbaum, 2003), and author of several articles and book chapters on feminist pedagogy in language education, literature in the language classroom, and ethics in language education. SALLY WEST is a Russian historian, who also teaches European, world, and women's history. She has taught at Truman State University since 1995, and received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1995. Her research area is advertising and consumer culture in late imperial Russia. She is currently working on a book titled Consumer Subjects: Advertising in Imperial Russia.
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