CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Linda Boynton Arthur received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Davis, and is assistant professor and Curator of the Historic Costume Collections at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. An ethnographer whose interest lies at the intersection of culture, gender, and dress, Dr. Arthur has done fieldwork with a variety of cultures, and has written a book and several articles on this topic.

Anthony Freitas is a doctoral student in communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on formations of the queer, diseased, and foreign body and self within popular and scientific communities.

Scott A. Hunt is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky. Issues pertaining to social movements, collective behavior, and identity construc- tion are his primary areas of research. He has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Per- spectives on Social Problems, and Sociological Inquiry.

Susan Kaiser is professor of textiles and clothing and Associate Dean for Human Health and Development in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sci- ence, University of California at Davis. Her current research explores how sub- jectivities become mobile and material through intersecting identities expressed through appearance styles. She is the author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context, and has published in such journals as Clothing and Textiles Research Journal and Symbolic Interaction.

Melinda D. Kane is a graduate student in the sociology program at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include gender and opportunities for upward mobility within organizations.

Holly J. McCammon is an assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt Uni- versity. Her research interests are in political sociology, focusing in particular on the ability of collective actors to influence state policy-making. In addition to her research on the labor movement, she is also investigating the political successes of the state suffrage movements.

Susan Michelman is an assistant professor in the Department of Consumer Stud- ies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her research and publications focus on dress, identity, and social change. Her Ph.D. in 1992 from the University

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of Minnesota and associated publications analyze cultural symbolism of dress in women’s societies of the Kalabari people of Nigeria.

Kimberly A. Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Interior Design, Merchandising, and Textiles. Her current work is theory building in the area of dress and the private and secret self. She has pub- lished in such journals as Symbolic Interaction and Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. Her work as a session organizer on dress and appearance at the Midwest Sociological Society meetings led to the creation of the special section on dress and appearance in this issue of Sociological Inquiry.

Gwendolyn S. O’Neal is associate professor of textiles and clothing at the Ohio State University where she teaches semiotics of apparel and related consumer products, fashion theory, and qualitative research methods. Her research focus is the meaning assigned apparel products and their impact on behavior. She is cur- rently investigating the phenomenon of personal larceny involving fashionable clothing.

Sheryl R. Tynes is an associate professor of sociology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her book Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement” was published by Stanford University Press in 1996. Her specialty areas include organizations, politics, the welfare state, and childhood and youth. She is currently conducting a cross-class comparison of children who live in public housing projects and children who come from middle or upper class families.