Ernest Hawkins Abuba is the recipient of an OBIE, five New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, (CAPS) Creative Artist Public Service Award, and Best Actor Focus Press Award. His Broadway credits include Pacific Overtures, Shimada, Loose Ends, The King and I, and Zoya’s Apartment, directed by Boris Morozov. He has also performed the following roles in regional and Off-Broadway productions: King Lear, Macbeth, Oberon, King Arthur, Autolycus, Chebutykin, James Tyrone, Lysander, Mishima, and The Singer in Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Fritz Bennewitz. Ernest has also performed with the Maly Theatre and the Berlin Ensemble. He is the author of Kwatz! The Tibetan Project, Leir Rex, The Dowager Empress of China, An American Story, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Night Stalker, and the opera Cambodia Agonistes, all produced Off-Broadway. His international tours include the Cairo Experimental Theatre, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Ernest has collaborated and performed Butoh with Shigeko Suga in Spleen, Acadami Domani, by Dario Fo, and Sotoba Komachi. His film and television experiences include 12 Monkeys, directed by Terry Gilliam, King of New York, Call Me, New York Undercover, Bill Cosby Show and Kung Fu. His directing and screenwriting credits comprise Mariana Bracetti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Asian American Railroad Strike, Iroquois Confederacy, Lilac Chen-Asian American Suffragette, and Osceola produced by PBS/CBS. Ernest also provided the voice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the audio book The Art of Happiness. SLC, 1995 –

Neil Arditi received his B.A. from Yale University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His special interests include British Romantic poetry, Romantic legacies in modern and contemporary poetry, and the history of criticism and theory. Mr. Arditi’s essays have been published in Raritan, Parnassus, Keats-Shelley Journal, Philosophy and Literature, and Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets. SLC, 2001 –

Jim Cullen teaches history at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees. He is the author of ten books, most recently Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Redemption, to be published in paperback this summer, and the forthcoming Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write and Think about History. He is the husband of Sarah Lawrence College historian Lyde Cullen Sizer.

Carolyn Ferrell received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. from City College of New York. Author of the short story collection Don’t Erase Me, awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zacharis Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction; stories anthologized in The Best American Short Stories of the Century; Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; The Blue Light Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; and Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present; recipient of grants from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.), the City University of New York MAGNET Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts (Literature fellow for 2004). SLC, 1996 –

Melissa Frazier earned an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley. Special interests include Romanticism and Romantic aesthetics, theory of genre, Russian Formalism, and Polish literature; author of articles and books on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Senkovskii, and comparative Romanticism; recipient of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Presidential Exchange Scholarship, the Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, and the Berkeley fellowship. SLC, 1995 –

Daniel King received his B.S. from Lafayette College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His special interests include abstract algebra, mathematics education, game theory and strategy, fair division theory, social choice theory, applied statistics, and the outreach of mathematics to areas in the humanities and social sciences. Mr. King is the author of research papers in the areas of Jordan theory, nonassociative superalgebras, and fair division theory, and is the director of the Mathematical Speakers Bureau and chair-elect of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America. SLC, 1997 –

Mary LaChapelle received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota and her M.F.A. from Vermont College. Author of House of Heroes and Other Stories; stories published in Nimrod, Northern Lit Review, Redbook, and First; anthologized in the U.S., Japan, and England; recipient of awards from PEN/Nelson Algren, Whiting, Katherine Anne Porter, and of a Bush Foundation fellowship. SLC, 1992 –

Jamee K. Moudud received his B.S. and M.Eng. from Cornell University; he also earned an M.A. and Ph.D. (honors) from the New School for Social Research. Research interests include growth and cycles, nonlinear dynamics, political economy, econometrics of structural time series models, and international comparisons of long-run technological change and growth. Current research includes the use of both co-integration and state space methods to estimate potential output, the rate of capacity utilization, and long-run technological change in a number of developed and developing countries. Currently co-editing a book entitled The Dynamics of Accumulation: Essays in the Classical and Harrodian Traditions (M.E. Sharpe Publishers). Co-organized panels on globalization and Latin American development for the Eastern Economic Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., February 2004, at which he presented a paper on an econometric estimation of the Harrodian warranted growth rates in five major Latin American countries in the postwar period. Also working on co-editing a publication based on the conference for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Research associate at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Biographical entry in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2003. SLC, 2000 –

Priscilla Murolo is the director of the Graduate Program in Women's History/History. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Special interest in U.S. labor, women’s, and social history; author, The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls’ Clubs; co-author, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States; contributor to various encyclopedias and anthologies and to educational projects sponsored by labor and community organizations; reviewer for Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, International Labor and Working Class History, and other historical journals; contributor and editorial associate, Radical History Review; recipient of Hewlett-Mellon grants. SLC, 1988 –

David Peritz holds a B.A.from Occidental College and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. Special interests in democracy in conditions of cultural diversity, social complexity and political dispersal, critical social theory, social contract theory, radical democratic thought, and the idea of dispersed but integrated public spheres that create the social and institutional space for broad-based, direct participation in democratic deliberation and decision making; recipient of a Marshal Scholarship; taught at Harvard University, Deep Springs College, and Dartmouth College; visiting scholar at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and the London School of Economics. SLC, 2000 –

Shahnaz Rouse earned a B.A. from Kinnaird Collage, Pakistan, an M.A. from Punjab University, Pakistan, an M.S., Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Special Student at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her academic specialization is in historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the mass media, gender, and political economy. She is the author of Shifting Body Politics: Gender/National/State (New Delhi, Kali: Women Unlimited, 2004) and co-editor (with Cynthia Nelson) of Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2000). Rouse is currently working on a project in social history entitled “Memory and History in the Life of a City,” and is a contributor to books and journals on South Asia and the Middle East. Rouse taught as visiting faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is a member of the Board of Editorial Advisors for Contributions to Indian Sociology and a member of the Editorial Committee, MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project). Rouse is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright/Hays Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and the Council on American Overseas Research Centers and is a past consultant to the Middle East and North African Program of the Social Science Research Council as well as the Population Council West Asia and North Africa Office (Cairo). SLC, 1987–

Rose Anne Thom received a B.A. from McGill University. Writer, critic for Dance Magazine, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Society of Dance History Scholars; oral historian for the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet; consultant, New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program; guest faculty, Princeton University, 2003; former teacher at SUNY Purchase, Southern Methodist University, American Ballet Theatre School. Labanotator and reconstructor. SLC, 1975 –

Charles Zerner earned a B.A. from Clark University, an M.Arch. from the University of Oregon, and a J.D. from Northeastern University. Special interests in environmental ethnography, political ecology, environmental justice, law, language and culture, environmental security, and public policy; ethnographic fieldwork with Mandar fishing communities of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and reef management in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands; former program director, the Rainforest Alliance; contributor and editor, People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation and Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia; and co-editor, Representing Communities: Politics and Histories of Community-Based Natural Resource Management. Co-editor, with Banu Subramaniam and Elizabeth Hartmann, of Making Threats: Bio-fears and Environmental Anxieties (AltaMira Press, 2005). Residencies at the University of California-Irvine; Humanities Research Institute; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; grants include Fulbright Hayes fellowship for fieldwork in Indonesia, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council. SLC, 2000 –

Carol Zoref received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a fiction writer and essayist and has received fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write. Ms. Zoref is the winner of the I.O.W.W. Emerging Artist Award and a finalist for the Henfield and American Fiction Awards and Pushcart Prize. SLC, 1996 –