1. Paula England, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University. Her main fields of interest are gender, inequality, and family. Her current research focuses on how gender inequality and family patterns differ by social class, as well as on dating, sexuality, and romantic relationships among college students.
2. Paul Allison, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha. His main field of interest is quantitative methods. Dr. Allison is currently researching methods for handling missing data and methods for causal inference from longitudinal data.
3. Su Li, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Her main fields of interest are gender, inequality, organizations, and education. Her current research focuses on women's lead in college attendance in the United States, as well as social networks, interorganizational relations, and gender differences in the use of time on the Internet.
4. Noah Mark, Ph.D., is Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. His main fields of interest are theory, social evolution, social networks, social order, and inequality. Dr. Mark is also investigating how status differences between categories of people can emerge and is conducting a set of projects on social evolution with the goal of clarifying the relationship between social order and social inequality across different types of human society.
5. Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D., is Senior Research Associate, Branch Associates, Philadelphia. Her main fields of interest are gender, inequality, and education. Her current work focuses on evaluating youth development programs in urban areas and public health initiatives, specifically tobacco-control programs.
6. Michelle J. Budig, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include gender inequality in labor markets, work and family conflict, social inequality, nonstandard employment arrangements, and social policy. Her current research examines motherhood wage penalties in a comparative perspective, racial/ethnic discrepancies in the effects of human capital on wages, and racial/ethnic differences in the rising trends in childlessness and...
7. Han Sun, MA, is a Ph.D., candidate, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her main fields of interest are comparative-historical sociology, war, the state, and Chinese society. She is completing a dissertation on the provisions for ex-soldiers of the Communist army in China after the Communist regime was founded in 1949.