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CONTRIBUTORS
Lisa Blackman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and
Communications, Goldsmiths College, U.K., and works at the intersection
of media studies and critical psychology. Her recent books include
Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies with Valerie Walkerdine
(Palgrave, 2001) and Hearing Voices: Embodiment and Experience (Free
Association Books, 2001). She is currently working on a genealogy of
self-help.
David Breshears is a doctoral candidate, an Assistant Instructor in the
Department of Communication Studies, and Assistant Director of Debate
at the University of Texas-Austin. During the summer he is a Senior
Instructor at the University of Texas National Institute in Forensics. His
specializations include rhetorical and cultural studies. He is recipient of
the Jesse H. Jones Fellowship in Communication and has published in
the Journal of Law in Society. He is currently writing a dissertation about
the alterations in the mentalities of racial governance in the United
States during the twentieth century.
Laura Briggs is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University
of Arizona. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of
Anthropology and courtesy appointments in Department of History
and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Program. Her primary
areas of interest are in the cultural contexts of science, history of gender
and science, postcolonial studies, and critical race theory. She has
published articles on the history of birth control in Puerto Rico and
the question forced sterilization in journals such as differences and Signs.
She is the author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, and Science in the U.S.
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