Sandra E. Weissinger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She has recently contributed chapters to Race, Class & Gender: An Anthology (Cengage, 2016), Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color (Routledge, 2015), and Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change (Policy Press/University of Chicago, 2015).

Dwayne A. Mack is Associate Professor of History at Berea College. He is the lead editor of Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color (Routledge, 2015), Mentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Advancement in Colleges and Universities (McFarland Publishers, 2013), and author of Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).

Elwood Watson is Professor of History and African American Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the editor and co-editor of several volumes including Generation Speaks: Voices from Academia (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color (Routledge, 2015), and The Oprah Phenomenon (University of Kentucky Press, 2007). His most recent authored book is Performing American Masculinity: The Twenty First Century Man in Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011).