Lisa Baldez is Associate Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and founding editor, along with Karen Beckwith, of Politics & Gender.

Lee Ann Banaszak is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage (Princeton University Press, 1996) and editor of Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (with Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht; Cambridge University Press, 2003) and U.S. Women's Movements in a Dynamic and Global Perspective (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Her current research examines feminist activist insiders in the U.S. bureaucracy.

Christina Ewig is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is completing a book manuscript on gender and the politics of neoliberal health sector reforms in Latin America. She was recently awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars fellowship for research in Chile and Colombia, and a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship. Her most recent article, “Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church and the Family Planning Debacle in Peru,” is forthcoming in Feminist Studies.

Hawley G. Fogg-Davis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University. Her research and teaching interests are in the moral and legal aspects of social and political discrimination. Her publications include The Ethics of Transracial Adoption (Cornell University Press, 2002), “Navigating Race in the Market for Human Gametes” (The Hastings Center Report), and “The Racial Retreat of Contemporary Political Theory” (Perspectives in Politics).

Lisa García Bedolla is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005). Her research focuses on the political incorporation of Latinos and other racial/ethnic groups in the United States, with an emphasis on the intersection of race, class, and gender.

Mona Lena Krook is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her doctoral dissertation, Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide, at Columbia University in 2004. In 2004–2005, she was a British Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol.

Brenda Lyshaug is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches political theory and feminist theory. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Authenticity and Identity Politics.

Susan Gluck Mezey is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches courses in constitutional law, judicial process, the federal courts, and women, law, and public policy. Her current research is on gay rights litigation, and she has published books and articles on the federal courts and Social Security Disability policy, women's rights, children's rights, child welfare litigation, and judicial interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Medha Nanivadekar is the Director of the Center for Women's Studies, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Women and Politics Institute, American University (2004–2007) and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in APSA's Congressional Fellowship Program (2004–2005). She has testified before the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the Indian Congress in support of the Women's Reservation Bill. Recently the UN Secretary General appointed her as an Expert on Women in Politics and Decision-Making.

Becki Scola is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She received her BA in Women's Studies from Arizona State University, West. Her research focuses on U.S. institutions, state legislatures, representation, and women elected officials. Currently, she is working on a project that examines women of color in state legislatures, analyzing how the intersection of race and gender impacts representation across the states.

Sue Thomas is Senior Policy Researcher at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. She has previously served as Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Director of Women's Studies at Georgetown University. Her publications include: How Women Legislate (Oxford University Press, 1994); Women and Elective Office: Past, Present and Future, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005); and “Cracking the Glass Ceiling: The Status, Significance, and Prospects of Women in Legislative Office,” in Gender and American Politics, 2nd ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2005).

Georgina Waylen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in gender and politics, international political economy, governance, globalization, and transitions to democracy. Her published work includes: Gender, Politics and the State (edited with Vicky Randall; Routledge, 2002); Towards a Gendered Political Economy (edited with Joanne Cook and Jennifer Robert, Palgrave, 2000); and many published articles. Her book Engendering Transitions will be published by Oxford University Press (2007).