Contributors

Martha Ackelsberg is a professor in the Department of Government at Smith College and author of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Her interests include the interconnections of politics, spirituality, and community, particularly in a Jewish context.

Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., professor of Peace Studies at Prescott College, publishes widely in areas including anarchism, ecology, and social movements, and is the author of Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (LFB Scholarly, 2008).

William Armaline is a professor at San Jose State University. He is an activist and a multidisciplinary scholar, with a teaching focus in Sociology, Justice, Education, and Human Rights. His interests include anti-racist, anti-patriarchal scholarship and action.

Liat Ben-Moshe is a PhD student in sociology, disability studies, and women's studies at Syracuse University. She is interested and engages in radical politics, critical disability studies, and inclusive pedagogy. Amongst other publications, she is co-editor of Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts (SU Press, 2005).

Steve Best, an Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, is an award winning author who has published ten books and over one-hundred articles. Best is also the co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.

Eric M. Buck is an assistant professor of philosophy at Montana State University, Billings. He has a combining interest in architecture, Daoism, and phenomenology. Buck also founded the School for Cooperative Living and a gallery for local artists.

Alejandro de Acosta is a professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Southwestern University. He has published a number of publications including a translation with Joshua Beckman of Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s Cinco metros de poemas (Five Meters of Poems), which is forthcoming by Ugly Duckling Press.

Abraham DeLeon, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Rochester in the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. His areas of interest include critical theory, anarchism, social studies education, critical pedagogy, and cultural studies.

Luis A. Fernandez is the author of Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2008). His interests include protest policing, social movements, and the social control of late modernity. He is a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University.

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at TCU and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. Recent books include Empire of Scrounge (NYU Press, 2006) and, with Keith Hayward and Jock Young, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (SAGE, 2008).

Emily Gaarder is an assistant professor in Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Her writing and activism focus on gender and crime, restorative justice, ecofeminism, and the animal rights movement.

Uri Gordon teaches politics and ethics at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, southern Israel. He is the author of Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press, 2008). His interests include anarchist politics, radical peacemaking, and grassroots sustainability.

David Graeber is the author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. Graeber teaches in the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Laura Hahn is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Social Advocacy Program in the Department of Communication at Humboldt State University. She is the co-author of a forthcoming textbook on interpersonal communication. Her interests include social advocacy, rhetorical criticism, and gender and communication.

Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy, University of Northampton, England, edits the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com). He has twelve books and around a hundred chapters and articles (mainly on class, postmodernism, neoliberalism, Marxism, race and equality) published.

pattrice jones teaches at University of Maryland Eastern Shore and is the cofounder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center. A former tenant organizer and antiracist educator, she is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World.

Jeffrey Juris is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization (Duke University Press, 2008). His research and teaching interest include globalization, social movements, and new digital technologies in Spain and Latin America.

Richard Kahn is an assistant professor of educational foundations at the University of North Dakota. He is the co-editor of six books of educational and social theory, and managing editor of Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy. His website is: richardkahn.org.

Caroline Kaltefleiter is the Coordinator of Women’s Studies and an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY, Cortland. She also works on radio documentaries for National Public Radio and anchors a radio program titled, The Digital Divide on Public Radio station WSUC-FM.

Lisa Kemmerer is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Montana State University, Billings. She is the author of Ethics and Animals: In Search of Consistency (Brill Academic, 2006) and has directed and produced two documentaries on Buddhism.

Ruth Kinna teaches political thought in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University, UK. She is author of Anarchism: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2005) and co-editor of Anarchism and Utopianism, (forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2009).

Gabriel Kuhn, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck and has published widely on poststructuralism and anarchism. He is the founder of Alpine Anarchist Productions, and is the editor and translator of ‘Neuer Anarchismus’ in den USA: Seattle und die Folgen (Unrast, 2008).

Kurt Love, a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut, is an adjunct instructor at Fordham University and Saint Joseph's College. He works on reforming science education by using critical, feminist, and eco-justice pedagogies.

Todd May is a Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University and the author of eight books of philosophy, including Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2005), The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere, and The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism.

Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post columnist, has taught classes in peace studies for over twenty years at numerous colleges and high schools. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace. His essays have appear