About the Contributors

Jo Ann Buysse is the Director of Sport Studies in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota. She teaches undergraduate courses in sport sociology, sport ethics, senior research seminar and graduate courses on women in sport and leisure and global sport issues. Her research interests include media constructions of gender and race in sport, and power and decision-making in intercollegiate athletics. A former college coach and athletic director, Buysse has been inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Southwest Minnesota State University (as an athlete) and at the University of Montana-Montana Tech (as a basketball coach). She received her Ph.D in Kinesiology with a minor in Advanced Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1992.

Margaret Carlisle Duncan is a Professor of Human Movement Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her most recent project examines the social construction of fat. Her ongoing research examines media portrayals of female athletes and women's sports.

E. Gordon Gee is in his sixth year as Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. One of the most experienced chief executives in higher education, Gee has served as president of Brown University, The Ohio State University, the University of Colorado, and West Virginia University. In September of 2003, Chancellor Gee made national headlines when he absorbed Vanderbilt's athletic department into its Division of Student Life and eliminated the position of athletic director, in order to allow for greater integration of Vanderbilt's athletics program with the University's overall academic mission. Gee remains a persistent and insistent advocate of academic reform in intercollegiate athletics.

E. Grace Glenny graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College with a degree in English and Women's Studies in 2004. She is currently the Administrative Assistant at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and is planning to attend graduate school in the Fall of 2007 to study Lacan and Gertrude Stein.

Tina Sloan Green is a professor Emeritus in the College of Education at Temple University. During her 33 years at Temple University, she was co-principal investigator of Sisters in Sports Science, a National Science Foundation funded program. She was also director of the Temple University National Youth Sports Program. As head coach of Temple women's lacrosse team (1973-1992), she led her team to three National Championships and 11 consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances. Professor Sloan Green has coauthored two books, Black Women in Sport and Modern Women's Lacrosse and has written chapters in the books Racism in College Athletics and Basketball Jones. She was inducted into the Halls of Fame at both Temple and West Chester Universities as well as the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Women's Sport Foundation Hall of Fame. Professor Green competed on the U.S.A Women's Lacrosse Team (1969-1973) and the U.S. Women's Field Hockey Squad (1966). In addition, she is cofounder and president of the Black Women in Sport Foundation.

Leslie Heywood is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York, Binghamton. A lifelong athlete, she is the author of scholarly monographs, essays, memoir, and poetry about women in sport, including Pretty Good for a Girl and, with Shari Dworkin, Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon. She is also the editor of The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, and, with Jennifer Drake, co-editor of Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism.

Nancy Hogshead-Makar Nancy Hogshead-Makar is a Professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law. She is one of the nation's foremost exponents of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, particularly within the context of intercollegiate sports. In private practice at Holland & Knight LLP, she represented student-athletes and universities in Title IX matters. She is a former President of the Women's Sports Foundation (1992-94) and currently serves as its legal advisor. She has testified in Congress numerous times on the topic of gender equity in athletics, written numerous scholarly and lay articles, and has been a frequent guest on national news programs on the topic, including 60 Minutes, CNN, Good Morning America, ESPN. She serves as an expert witness in Title IX cases, and has written amicus briefs representing athletic organizations in the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to attending law school, Professor Hogshead-Makar was an Olympic swimmer, capping her career at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics where she won three gold medals and one silver medal. In 2000, Sports Illustrated ranked her as Florida's 13th greatest athlete of the 20th Century. Significant awards include induction into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame in 2001, the National Association for Sports and Physical Education Hall of Fame in 1993, and receipt of an honorary doctorate from Springfield College in 2002. In 2004, she was awarded "Favorite Professor" by the first-year students. Professor Hogshead-Makar earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is an honors graduate of Duke University with majors in political science and women's studies.

Karla FC Holloway is the William R. Kenan Professor of English, Law, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of literature, law, gender, and ethics in African American cultural studies. She is the author of six books including Passed On: African American Mourning Stories - A Memorial. Her most recent manuscript, BookMarks: Reading in Black and White - A Memoir will be released this fall. Professor Holloway's recent essay: "Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine, and the Problem of Polyheme" appears in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. Professor Holloway is a core faculty member of Duke University's Institute on the Care at the End of Life, an affiliated faculty of African and African-American Studies and serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics; the Center for Documentary Study at Duke University; and the Princeton University Advisory Council: Program in the Study of Women and Gender.

Janet Jakobsen is Director of the Center for Research on Women and Acting Chair of Women's Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Indiana University Press, 1998), co-author (with Ann Pellegrini) of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York University Press, 2002), and co-editor (with Elizabeth A. Castelli) of Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (Palgrave 2004) She is currently working on a book project, Sex, Secularism and Social Movements: The Value of Ethics in a Global Economy. Before entering the academy, she was a policy analyst, organizer, and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

Donna Lopiano is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation, member of the Foundation's Strategic Planning Committee and Government Relations Committee. She is the Senior Staff Liaison to the Governance Committee. According to The Sporting News, she is listed as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Sports." She received her Bachelor's degree from Southern Connecticut State University and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has been a college coach of men's and women's volleyball, and women's basketball, and softball. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Texas Women's Hall of Fame among others. Dr. Lopiano previously served as the University of Texas Director of Women's Athletics (17 years), and the President of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. A prolific writer and speaker, she is a champion of equal opportunity for women in sport and the ethical conduct of educational sports.

Laurie Priest is currently the Chair of Physical Education and Director of Athletics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. Prior to coming to Mount Holyoke in l989, Laurie served for seven years as Director of Athletics, Assistant Professor and Swimming coach at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She is a tireless advocate for equity in sport for girls and women and is recognized nationally for her work to promote and support Title IX. In recent years, she has focused much of her outside professional work towards combating homophobia in intercollegiate athletics. She currently serves as the Chair of the Social Justice Committee of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and publishes and speaks on the importance of addressing social justice issues in sport. In 2002 she was recognized by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport as their Honor Award recipient and as the Division III Athletic Administrator of the Year by the National Association for Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. When Laurie is not at Mount Holyoke, you will find her hiking with her three dogs or sea kayaking the islands of Maine.

Anna Quindlen is the bestselling author of four novels (Blessings, Black and Blue, One True Thing, and Object Lessons) and four nonfiction books (A Short Guide to a Happy Life; Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, and How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column, "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.

Don Sabo is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Physical Activity, Sport & Health at D'Youville College. He is Research Director of the Women's Sports Foundation, a national nonprofit that aims to advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity. He writes about gender issues in sports, women's and men's health, and the prison as a patriarchal institution. With regard to the latter, see Don Sabo, Terry Kupers & Willie London, eds. Prison Masculinities (Temple University Press, 2001).

Tamir Sorek is an Assistant Professor for Sociology and Israel Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of the forthcoming book Arab Soccer in a Jewish State (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Catharine R. Stimpson, the inaugural Helen Pond McIntyre Lecturer, has long-standing ties to the Barnard Center for Research on Women. From 1963-1980, when she was a member of Barnard's faculty, Catharine Stimpson helped to found the Center, serving as both chair of the Task Force that brought the Center into being and as its first director. She also initiated the teaching of courses important to the developing field of women's studies, including the first courses in Women and Literature and Black Literature. While at Barnard, Professor Stimpson founded Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, which remains to this day a premier women's studies journal and a cutting-edge resource for feminist scholarship. Professor Stimpson's many publications include the book Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces and the Library of America's Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932. The author of a novel, Class Notes, she is the editor of seven books and has published over 150 monographs, essays, stories, and reviews in the Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, and others. She has served as chairperson for the National Center for Research on Women and the Ms. Magazine Board of Scholars, as well as president of the Modern Language Association. Professor Stimpson is currently University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Science at New York University.

Janie Victoria Ward is Associate Professor of Education and Human Services and Chair of Simmons's Africana Studies department. In addition to teaching, she works with youth counselors, secondary school educators, and other practitioners in a variety of settings. Her research focuses on adolescent development, particularly the racial identity and moral development of African American girls and boys. Ward has written and edited numerous books, chapters, and articles, and has made many media guest appearances. She is author of The Skin We're In: Teaching our Children to be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart and Spiritually Connected (Free Press, 2000) and Gender and Teaching, with Francis Maher (Lawrence Erlbaum Publications, 2001). With her thesis advisor, Carol Gilligan, she co-edited Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women's Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education. She also edited Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black, a compilation of autobiographical statements written by African American, Caribbean, and black Canadian college students. Ward is a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she co-directs with Wendy Luttrell, Project ASSERT (Accessing Strengths and Supporting Effective Resistance in Teaching), a five-year, school-based research study and curriculum development project designed to guide and support urban teachers around gender, race, and class dynamics that impact their work with youth. Currently Ward is the site coordinator for the Boston Girls Sports and Physical Activity Project, funded by the Women's Sports Foundation, and she is a member of the project's evaluation and research team.