Aviva Dove-Viebahn is an assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University and director of the Scholars Writing Program for Ms. magazine. She has a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. She is coeditor (with Carrie N. Baker) of Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community (Lever Press) and her monograph, There She Goes Again: Gender, Knowledge and Power in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises was recently published by Rutgers University Press.
Karon Jolna is a public scholar with two decades of experience in feminist media and higher education. She serves as program director and editor at Ms/Feminist Majority Foundation, leading its efforts to bring women’s, gender and sexuality studies analyses and voices to a broader national audience – and integrate public scholarship in teaching and pedagogy. She is also a mentor-editor at the OpEd Project. Previously, she served as lecturer at UCLA’s Gender Studies Department and research scholar at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She was among the first cohort to earn a Women’s Studies Ph.D. at Emory University. Canadian-born, she lives in Los Angeles.
Stacy Keltner is a Ms. contributor, a member of the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and Chair of The Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Stacy was a co-founder and first coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program at KSU and is dedicated to building spaces, curricula, and programming for interdisciplinary and engaged feminist scholarship. She is an active member in the field of gender studies and is a former President of the most longstanding academic organization in the U.S., WGS South – The Association for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the South. Stacy has published widely in feminist and social theory in both traditional and broad reach venues and is the author or editor of three books.
Linda M. Perkins is University Professor and director of Applied Gender Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Gender Studies, Educational Studies, and History. Her primary areas of research are on the history of African-American women’s higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions, and the history of talent identification programs for African-American students.
With a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Perkins has made her career as a historian of women’s and African-American higher education. She has served as vice president of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and she has served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA.
Perkins was on the National Planning Committee for the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education at New York University and taught a course on Brown in fall 2004. She hosted a national research conference in February 2008 on the impact of the Brown decision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act on black higher education.
She is on the editorial boards of History of Education Quarterly and Review of African American Education. Her publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865–1902 (Garland, 1987) and “The African American Female Elite: The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880–1960″ in the Harvard Educational Review (1997). Perkins has several forthcoming book chapters on the female African-American college experience.