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*Body & Soul's* series creator, Gail Harris, has been a print and broadcast journalist for more than 25 years, with extensive experience as a political reporter. Before launching *Body & Soul* in 1998, she co-hosted the 24-part PBS series on campaign finance reform, *Follow the Money*. Her other PBS credits include anchoring and co-producing *Hiroshima Remembered*, which won a national Emmy. A former correspondent for ABC *News Nightline*, she has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is president and chief executive officer of Beacon Productions, Inc., the Boston-based company that produces *Body & Soul*.

Daniel Albright is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard and the editor of *Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources*. He was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and completed his undergraduate studies on a full scholarship at Rice. He later received his PhD from Yale. Albright is also the author of the book *Quantum Poetic*s which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.

Composer and author David Schiff was born in New York City on August 30, 1945. He studied composition with John Corigliano and Ursula Mamlok at the Manhattan School of Music, and with Elliott Carter at the Juilliard School where he received his D.M.A.. He holds degrees in English literature from Columbia and Cambridge Universities. Schiff's major works include the opera *Gimpel the Fool*, *the Sacred Service*, *Slow Dance*, *Stomp*, *Solus Rex*, *Speaking in Drums*, *Vashti*, and *4 Sisters*, *New York Nocturnes*, *Pepper Pieces*, *Canti di Davide*, *Singing in the Dark*, *All About Love*, and *Canzona*.

Prof. Seager's current areas of research include: militarism and environment; feminist geography and the comparative international status of women; international environmental policy. Prof. Seager teaches broadly across a human geography and environmental studies curriculum. Since coming to Hunter she has taught two courses, both upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses: War and Environment, and Food and Famine. She has supervised a group of graduate students in an Independent Readings course on Geographies of Violence. Additionally, she is supervising or on committees for four M.A. and two Ph.D. students.

Charles Rosen was born in New York in 1927 and left The Juilliard School of Music at the age of eleven to study piano with Moritz Rosenthal, a pupil of Liszt. His New York debut in 1957 was followed in the same year by one of the first complete recordings of Debussys Etudes, which attracted high praise. Since then his career as a piano virtuoso has included many tours of the United States and Europe, playing with leading orchestras and giving recitals. He has made frequent appearances with the BBC and various European and American radio stations, and his television appearances include the presentation of two programmes on Beethovens last years for BBC TV. In September 1999 he broadcast Rosen on Chopin a series of programmes to mark the 150th anniversary of the composers death for BBC Radio 3. His performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra have included the BBC Promenade Concert premiere of Elliott Carters Double Concerto, and the first performance of Boulezs Elats/Mutiples conducted by the composer. The holder of a doctorate in French Literature from Princeton University, Charles Rosen holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. He was appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair at Harvard for 1980/81; this Chair, established in 1925, is offered every year to an outstanding individual in one the arts, alternating between literature and music. In 1988 he was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and he was Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago between 1991 and 1996. He was recently appointed to the International Chair in Performance and Musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music for a period of three years.

Frank Scheffer is a Dutch cinematographer and producer of documentary film, mostly known for his work *Conducting Mahler* (1996) on the 1995 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam with Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti and Sir Simon Rattle.

Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics, is Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Board for Education Sciences. She is one of the nation's foremost experts on school choice, teacher pay, teacher quality, financing public schools, the costs and benefits of college, and methods for scientific, quantitative evaluation of educational policies. Hoxby has a PhD in economics from MIT and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the editor of The Economics of School Choice (2003) and College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It (2004).

Ms. Casel E. Walker has been an educator in the Boston Public Schools for the past twenty-nine years. She just completed her twelfth year as principal of the Joseph P. Manning Elementary School. Ms. Walker is currently the Cluster 6 Leader. Over the years, she served as a Speech and Language Therapist, a Substantially Separate Classroom Teacher in Special Education, a Reading Specialist, and an Assistant Principal. Ms. Walker holds a Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern University and a Master's Degree in Education from Curry College.

Amalie M. Kass is a lecturer on the History of Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is co-author of *Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin*, and author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries.

Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, teaches Constitutional Law and Race and American Law, among other subjects. She writes about race relations and inequality in America. Her new book, *The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family* (PublicAffairs, 2008) traces the arc of American race relations through generations of her family. Her book, *The Failures of Integration* (PublicAffairs, 2004) was an Editors' Choice in the *New York Times Book Review* and a nominee for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for non-fiction. Cashin has published widely in academic journals and written commentaries for several periodicals, including the *L.A. Times*, *Washington Post*, and *Education Week*. She has appeared on NPR's *All Things Considered*, *The Diane Rehm Show*, *The Tavis Smiley Show*, T*he Newshour With Jim Leher*, CNN, *BET*, *ABC News*, and numerous local programs. Professor Cashin worked in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy, particularly concerning community development in inner-city neighborhoods. She was law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1984 with a BD in electrical engineering. As a Marshall Scholar, she went on to receive a masters in English Law, with honors, from Oxford University in 1986 and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School, in 1989, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.