Sandra E. Weissingeris Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She has recently contributed chapters toRace, Class & Gender: An Anthology(Cengage, 2016),Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color(Routledge, 2015), andResearch 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 ofBeginning 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 ofBlack 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 includingGeneration Speaks: Voices from Academia(Scarecrow Press, 2013),Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color(Routledge, 2015), andThe Oprah Phenomenon(University of Kentucky Press, 2007). His most recent authored book isPerforming American Masculinity: The Twenty First Century Man in Popular Culture(Indiana University Press, 2011).