Cornel West is Professor of African-American Studies and Religion
at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has published the books
Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982),
Post-Analytic Philosophy (1985), Prophetic Fragments (1988), The American
Evasion of Philosophy (1989), The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought
(1991), Breaking Bread (1991), Prophetic Reflections (1991), Prophetic Thought
in Post Modern Times (1991) and Race Matters (1993).
Maxine Greene is
Professor of Philosophy and Education (Emeritus) at Teachers College, Columbia
University, New York, New York. She is the author of Landscapes of Learning
(1979), The Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing Imagination (1995).
Judith Beth Cohen is Associate Professor in the Adult Baccalaureate
College, School of Undergraduate Studies at Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cohen teaches writing, literature and education courses. She is the author
of Seasons, (1984), a novel, numerous short stories, and non-fiction articles.
As a consultant with the Bard College Institute on Writing and Thinking
she offers workshops for teachers on writing, including one on humor in
the classroom. Her article "Father Martinez and Willa Cather,"
a multicultural reading of : Death Comes for the Archbishop, will be published
by the National Council of Teachers of English in 1997.
Carroy U. Ferguson is Assistant Professor at the College of Public
and Community Service, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.
He is the author of the books Innovative Approaches to Education and Community
Service: Models and Strategies for Change and Empowerment (1993), A New
Perspective on Race and Color (1996), Transitions in Consciousness from
a Black Perspective (1996, in review), and is currently working on a manuscript
for a new book entitled Evolving the Race Game: A Transpersonal Perspective.
Sheryl Boris-Schacter is an Associate Professor in the School of
Education at Lesley College where she directs the program in Educational
Administration. Her publications include "Suggestions for reading instruction
for adults and young adults: The affective domain," The Kentucky reading
journal, Fall 1982; "Professional development schools in Massachusetts:
maintainence and growth," with Barbara Neufeld, The field center for
teaching and learning, UMASS Boston, 1991; "From Collaboration to Collegiality,"
with Marcia Bromfield, Harriet Deane, and Sondra Langer, Teacher Education
Quarterly, 1994. She is currently writing a monograph with Sondra Langer
entitled "More action less talk: A prescription for preparing school
leaders", and conducting research with Susan Merrifield on the professional
development of elementary and middle school principals.
Susan Merrifield is an Associate Professor of Education at Lesley
College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Aside from the collaborative work published
here, she is engaged in a study of the principalship and professional development.
Her recent research also includes a chapter ("Failure as Discrimination")
in When Children Don't Learn: Student Failures in the Lives of Teachers
soon to be published by Teachers College Press.
Marjorie Jones is Associate Professor in the Adult Baccalaureate
College, School of Undergraduate Studies at Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her teaching and research have focused on issues of schooling, including
teacher education and curriculum development both in the United States and
the Caribbean.
Merlin R. Langley is an Associate Professor in the counseling and
psychology programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at
Lesley College and an Instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a Research Associate in the
Muticultural Mental Health Research Center (MMHRC) affiliated with the Department
of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, one of
five national "centers of excellence" established by the National
Institute of Mental Health in the United States to examine issues related
to minority mental health.
Barbara Vacarr is an Assistant Professor in the Adult Baccalaureate
College, School of Undergraduate Studies at Lesley College where she teaches
human development and counseling courses. She is also a psychologist in
private practice. Her work with trauma survivors deepened her interest in
the relationship between healing and the telling of one's story. Currently,
she is interviewing Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg's Visual History
of the Shoah Project.
Sebastian Lockwood is Assistant Professor at the School of Undergraduate
Studies, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of a
collection of poetry: Night Blind (1996).
Luis López Nieves is Associate Professor at the Graduate School
of Communications, University of the Sacred Heart, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
López Nieves has published the books of short stories Seva and Escribir
para Rafa. He recently completed a third book of short stories: La verdadera
muerte de Juan Ponce de León, to be published in 1997.
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