Contributors
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List of C ontributors
Steve Bailey is Assistant Professor of Humanities and affiliated with the Program
in Science and Society at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published
essays in The Velvet Light Trap, Popular Music and Society, and Communication
Review.
Janies David B allard teaches at California State University, Northridge. His re
search revolves around terrorism and public policy.
B arbara G. Brents is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. She is currently co-authoring a book on the brothel industry in Nevada.
She also does research on social movements, political sociology and gender and
has published in American Sociological Review, Sociological Perspectives, Criti
cal Sociology, and The Journal o f Contemporary Ethnography.
M artin Buinicki is a Ph.D. candidate in English and a Ballard Fellow at the Uni
versity of Iowa. He is currently completing his dissertation, “Negotiating Copy
right: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in NineteenthCentury America.” His article “Walt Whitman and the Question of Copyright” is
forthcoming in American Literary History.
M eta G. C arstarphen, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Journalism at the Univer
sity of Oklahoma. A former editor with a national jewelry magazine, she received
“Best Feature” awards twice from the American Business Press. A former Paci
fica radio producer, she currently writes for The Dallas Morning News, Our Texas
magazine, and Black Issues in Higher Education.
Am anda Dean is a graduate student in criminal justice at Grand Valley State
University. She is currently conducting research on media and cultural representa
tions of deviance.
L au ra B. DeLind is Senior Academic Specialist in the Department of Anthropol
ogy at Michigan State University. Fascinated by the contradictions endemic to our
contemporary, post modem hves, she frequently deconstmcts and writes about
“the familiar.” Of particular interest to her is the U.S. food system and more de
mocratized, place-based approaches to food production and consumption.