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Keiko Nitta, Assistant Professor of Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan, earned her
Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She has published
essays on Toni Morrison andTheresa Hak Kyung Cha, and on theories of
multiculturalism both in Japan and in the United States.
Renford Reese is Assistant Professor in the Political Science department of
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the founder and
Director of the Colorful Flags Program, a multi-ethnic human relations program
that serves approximately 130,00 K -12 students in 17 school districts in California.
Charlene Regester is a Professor in the department of Afro-American Studies at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kin Wai Michael Siu teaches Design Criticism and Theory in the School of Design
at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the Fellow of the College of
Preceptors, a Chartered Designer and Chartered Engineer. His research interests
are design and culture, industrial design, and urban design research and studies.
Matt Stolick (Ph.D., University of Tennessee-Knoxville) is Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Findlay (OH). His interests include applied ethics
(sports ethics, medical ethics) and existentialism, as well as the work of Kierkegaard,
Spinoza, and Aristotle.
Ross Talarico has been awarded the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modem
Language Association for his book Spreading the Word: Po