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Jane E. Aaron

Jane E. Aaron is a professional writer and editor as well as an experienced teacher. She is the author of the best selling Little, Brown Handbook and coeditor of the best-selling Bedford Reader, Eighth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). She has served as consultant, editor, or writer on more than a dozen other textbooks for the first-year composition course.

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Richard Abcarian

Richard Abcarian (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-seven years. During his teaching career, he won two Fulbright professorships. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and its compact edition, he is the editor of a critical edition of Richard Wright's A Native Son, as well as several other literature textbooks.

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Raziel Abelson

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John Aberth

John Aberth lives in Roxbury, Vermont, and teaches history at Vermont's Castleton State College, where he formerly served as associate academic dean. He has taught history at a number of other institutions, including Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, St. Michael's College, the University of Nebraska, and Norwich University. He received his PhD in Medieval History from Cambridge University in England, and has published several books, including Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle (1996); From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death (2000); and A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film (2003).

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Mark Abrahamson

Mark Abrahamson has been a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut since 1976 and has also served that university in a variety of adminstrative positions. He is a former Program Director (for Sociology) at the National Science Foundation and was a professor of sociology at Syracuse University before moving to Connecticut. His main scholarly interests are in classical theory and urban sociology. He has authored more than 30 papers and one dozen books, most recently including Global Cities (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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Peter Abramoff

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Robert H. Abzug

Robert H. Abzug is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, Professor of American Studies, and director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has received several teaching awards. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and held the Eric Voegelin Visiting Professorship at the University of Munich. He has published widely in a number of fields, including the Holocaust, antebellum America, and the history of religion in America. Among his major publications are Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (1980); Inside the Vicious Heart: America and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1985); Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994); and has edited an edition of William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience for Bedford/St. Martins. He is currently finishing a biography of American psychologist Rollo May.

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Malcolm Adams

Malcolm Adams is a Professor of Mathematics and the Mathematics Department Head at the University of Georgia, where he also held the General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship from 2005-2008. He received is B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Oregon in 1978, and he earned his PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. Professor Adams's research interests focus on differential equations, especially in applications to biology and physics, and he has published another textbook, Measure Theory and Probability, with Victor Guillemin. Outside of the university, he enjoys running, traveling, and hiking with his wife and three children.

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Jane Addams

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Joseph Addison

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Linda Adler-Kassner

Linda Adler-Kassner is Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books, including The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers (Utah State University Press, 2008), which won the 2010 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award. Her latest book, coauthored with Peggy O'Neill, is Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning (Utah State University Press, 2010). She is also the author of over thirty articles and book chapters.

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Claire D. Advokat

Claire D. Advokat, professor of psychology at Louisiana State University, received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her primary interest is in understanding the clinical effectiveness and the mechanism of action of drugs used in the treatment of mental illness, such as the antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and anxiolytics.

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Allison Ainsworth

Allison J. Ainsworth serves as the Chair of the Department of Communication, Media Studies, and Journalism at Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia. She teaches Communication courses in the areas of Business and Professional, Interpersonal, Intercultural, as well as the basic course. Additionally, she teaches Environmental Communication as a member of the Teaching Faculty of the Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis where she combines geospatial analysis with her research projects. She is actively involved with the National Communication Association and serves as the 2010-2011 Chair of the Community College Section and Past-Faculty Delegate to Sigma Chi Eta, one of the honoraries sponsored by NCA. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education and her master’s degree in Speech Communication & Theatre from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. In Fall 2010, she successful defended her dissertation titled "The Communication Process: Impact of Ethnocentrism and Communication Apprehension on Foreign Language Student Competence,” and will be awarded her doctorate in Higher Education Administrative Leadership from Argosy University in Spring 2011.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.

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Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen is on leave from the University of Delaware to serve in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, where she is a Program Director for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, and for the Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological & Mathematical Sciences (UBM), Course, Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Research Coordination Networks–Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE), and Scholarships in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) programs. Before joining DUE, Allen served as PI of a NSF-funded Teacher Professional Continuum project, and continues to collaborate with the project's team of science and science education faculty who study pre-service teachers' progress through a reform-based teacher preparation program, and who co-teach courses for students in that program. Allen serves on the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education and has co-authored a regularly-featured column on teaching strategies for that journal. She is the author of Transformations: Approaches to College Science Teaching (W.H. Freeman's Scientific Teaching Series, 2009).

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