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An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful (Random House, 1970) and Sisterhood Is Global (Doubleday, l984; updated edition, The Feminist Press, 1996); with the recent Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for A New Millennium (Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, 2003). A founder/leader of contemporary US feminism, she has also been a leader in the international women's movement for 30 years. An invited speaker at every major university in North America, she has traveled--as organizer, lecturer, journalist--across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.

US Senator Byron Dorgan was raised in the southwestern North Dakota town of Regent, where his family worked in the farm equipment and petroleum business and raised cattle and horses. At age 26, he became North Dakota's youngest ever constitutional officer when he was appointed State Tax Commissioner. First elected to Congress in 1980, Dorgan has devoted his career to fighting for the interests of rural America. Senator Dorgan served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. He is a senior member of the Appropriations, Commerce and Energy committees. He also serves as Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and the Democratic Policy Committee. As Chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, he has worked to fund development of renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biofuels, as well as clean coal research that will help us find better ways to use the resource that fulfill 50 percent of our nation's energy needs.

John is the Acting Director of the Public Health Preparedness office at the Boston Public Health Commission. In that capacity, he leads all planning and coordination efforts related to bioterrorism preparedness and response, including the Boston Medical Reserve Corps. John joined the Commission in 2003, and has worked in several different areas of emergency preparedness and response. As a Project Manager in the Communicable Disease Control Division, John coordinated all bioterrorism-related planning activities within the division and participated in the development and implementation of the City's ED syndromic surveillance system. As Senior Project Manager and subsequently Associate Director of the Public Health Preparedness Office, John was the central point of contact for all planning activities related to the Cities Readiness Initiative since the inception of the program. Prior to the Commission, John held various positions in the private sector as a project manager and strategic planner.

Professor Braude teaches courses on the Middle East and on European-Middle Eastern relations. In addition to those interests his research also focuses on religious, racial, and ethnic identities in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim culture. Currently he is completing *Sex, Slavery, and Racism: The Secret History of the Sons of Noah*, which examines the construction of attitudes toward color and identity from the ancient Near East and the classical world to the present. More broadly, he is interested in post-national conceptions of historiography. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Frederick Lawrence received his AB from St. John's College and D. Th. & PhD at the University of Basel. He has wrote publications since 2002; *Expanding Challenge to Authenticity in Insight: Lonergan's Hermeneutics of Facticity, Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy & Education 15/3 (2004), 427-456; Grace and Friendship, Gregorianum 85/4 (2004), 795-820; Grace and Friendship: Postmodern Political Theology and God as Conversational, Il Teologo e la Storia: Lonergan's Centenary (1904-2004), edited by Paul Gilbert and Natalino Spaccapelo (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universit Gregoriana, 2006), 123-151; The Dialectic Tradition/Innovation and the Possibility of a Theological Method, Il Teologo e la Storia: Lonergan's Centenary (1904-2004), edited by Paul Gilbert and Natalino Spaccapelo (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universit Gregoriana, 2006), 249-264.*

For more than a decade, Professor Braman has been teaching in the philosophy department at Boston College. Before he received his PhD in philosophy, professor Braman pursued a variety of interests. He has lived all over the United States, from Wyoming to California, and has gone through many vocational phases. He has worked as an assistant sales manager, and his resume includes things as varied as time spent in military service with the Army Security Agency. During his time in the military, Braman took his first philosophy course through the University of Maryland. He remembers, "I really didn't like it all that much, and I swore I would never take another philosophy class at long as I lived." Now, it is this same professor who is the director of his own philosophy program, Perspectives, a series of courses that are offered for six credits each. Braman has also taught Capstone and Philosophy of the Person. All of the courses that professor Brian Braman teaches are inspirational, thought provoking, and, shall we say, philosophical. As the director of the Perspectives Program at Boston College, Braman has created this course to reflect some of his personal interests and passions.

Dr. DeLeeuw has responsibility for all administrative, fiscal, and human resource activities in the academic areas of Boston University. A graduate of the University of Detroit, she earned an MA and PhD in medieval studies at the University of Toronto and a Licentiate in medieval studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies before joining the Boston College faculty as assistant professor of theology in 1979. She conducts research and teaches courses in the history of medieval religion.

Richard P. McBrien is a Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, McBrien is the bestselling author of *Catholicism*, *Lives of the Popes*, and *Lives of the Saints*, as well as the general editor of *The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism*. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prize-winning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.

Franz Wright's *Walking to Martha's Vineyard* received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His newest collection is *God's Silence* (2006). He is currently the visiting poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.