Timothy Bates is Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wayne State University. He was previously Professor of Urban Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. His other appointments include Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, American Statistical Association/National Science Foundation/Census Bureau Fellow, and Floyd McKissick visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the field of small business policy, his consulting clients have included the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the City of Chicago Department of Law, the New York State Office of the Solicitor General, and the Chicago Transit Authority. Professor Bates is the author of five books on urban economic development issues and he is currently completing a book on minority entrepreneurship.

Darren Davis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the Director of the Center for Social Research. His areas of research include political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, survey methodology, and racial politics. Among his many contributions, Professor Davis’ book, Negative Liberty: Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America (2009), has been considered invaluable in detailing how perceptions of threat and anxiety shape political attitudes, and ultimately citizens’ support for democracy following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Professor Davis’ research has appeared in the most prestigious refereed journals in Political Science. Professor Davis earned a bachelor’s degree at Lamar University, a master’s degree from Louisiana State University and a doctorate at the University of Houston.

Andrew Douglas is Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches courses in political theory and the history of political thought. Douglas is the author of In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition (2013) and several articles, including recent essays on C. L. R. James, Walter Rodney, and the twentieth-century Black radical tradition. He is currently writing a book on Du Bois’s critique of economic and political liberalism.

Eve E. Garrow is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Garrow received her PhD in Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the implications of privatization of human services for poor and marginalized groups, especially racial and ethnic minorities. She has published and presented works on spatial disparities in government allocations to nonprofit human services that locate in poor, minority neighborhoods and the role of nonprofit advocacy in promoting social rights.

John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, Co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation, and lead author with Joshua Kaiser and Anna Hanson of Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Spencer Headworth is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and author of “Class, Crime, and Social Control” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Poverty in the United States.

Michael Leo Owens is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He is an urban politics and political penology scholar. Author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America (2007), his current book project is Prisoners of Democracy, a study of the challenges and prospects of ex-felons retaining or reclaiming their full democratic citizenship in the United States. He serves on the board of directors of the Prison Policy Initiative and the advisory boards of Foreverfamily Inc. and the Georgia Justice Project. Owens is also chair of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association. In his spare time, he curates the online exhibit Punishing Music: A Page for Songs Related to Imprisonment.

Ann Morning is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and a faculty affiliate of NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of racial difference. Her doctoral thesis was a co-recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2005 Dissertation Award, and later published by the University of California Press as The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference. During 2014–15, Prof. Morning is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she is writing a book on racial and ethnic conceptualization in Italy, and she serves on the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.

Alberto Palloni is Samuel Preston Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lead author with J. R. Thomas of “Estimation of Covariate Effects with Current Status Data and Differential Mortality” in Demography (2013), 50(2): 521–544.

Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is the author of two award-winning books—Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (1999) and Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (2007)—which focus on class stratification, public housing, crime, urban planning, community organizing, and youth culture in African American neighborhoods in Chicago. She is co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (2004). Pattillo is currently exploring questions of racial residential integration and segregation (see http://furmancenter.org/research/iri/pattillo), and the everyday pleasures of living in predominately Black neighborhoods.

Gabriele Plickert is a postdoctoral research fellow at Texas A&M University and lead author with Hans Merkens of “Hours of Work and Careers: The Effects of Gender on Professional Careers of Young Lawyers” in Zeitschrift fur Rechtssoziologie (2012/2013), 33, Heft 1, S. 77–105.

Dorothy E. Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. Roberts is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2002), and Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (2011), as well as co-editor of six books on constitutional law and gender. She has received fellowships from Harvard University’s Program in Ethics and the Professions, Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Fulbright Program. She was named the recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award by the American Psychiatric Association.

Carla Shedd is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests focus on crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; and urban sociology. Shedd has been published in the American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods & Research and she has also received fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Shedd’s first book, Adolescent Geographies: Race, Urban Schools, & Perceptions of Injustice (anticipated Fall 2015), examines Chicago public school students’ perceptions of injustice and their contact with the criminal justice system. Shedd’s current research focuses on New York City investigating how young people’s linked institutional experiences influence their placement on and movement along the carceral continuum.

Sharon Stanley is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. She specializes in modern and contemporary political theory, with separate emphases in the Enlightenment and its legacy and the politics of race in the United States. Her first book, The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Since then, she has been working on a second book manuscript examining both the theoretical meaning and the practical challenges of racial integration in the United States. In addition to this article, she published an earlier article drawn from the same project entitled “Toward a Reconciliation of Integration and Racial Solidarity” in Contemporary Political Theory in 2014.

David C. Wilson is the interim Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, and holds appointments as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Internal Relations, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Black American Studies, at the University of Delaware. He is also the Director of Public Opinion Initiatives at the UD Center for Political Communication. He holds a doctorate in political science from Michigan State University and specializes in political psychology, race and politics, political communication, and survey research methodology. Prior to his appointment at UD, he was a researcher at the Gallup Polling Organization in Washington, DC. His current research examines survey experimentation and racial attitudes.