David Harvey is Professor of Geography at Johns Hopkins University and Miliband Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1987 to 1993, he was the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University. Professor Harvey’s research has gone through several phases of evolution. During the 1970s, his work focused on urbanization and the crises of impoverishment and racism then facing many U.S. cities. In the 1980s, his research was mainly concerned with defining the relationship between political economic change and the processes of urbanization in advanced capitalist countries. He later broadened his emphasis to encompass questions of cultural change and environmental problems. More recently, questions of environmental justice, alternative modes of urbanization, and uneven geographical development within a globalizing world have been at the center of his research. Professor Harvey is the author of numerous books, including Social Justice and the City (1973), The Limits to Capital (1982), The Urbanization of Capital (1985), The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (1996), and most recently, Spaces of Hope (2000). He has also received many awards, including the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Vautrin Lud International Prize for Geography.

    Nira Yuval-Davis is Professor of Gender & Ethnic Studies at the University of Greenwich, London and Visiting Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Professor Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of women, nationalism, racism, fundamentalism and citizenship in Europe, Israel and elsewhere. She is the author or co-author of ten books, including Gender and Nation, which has been translated into six languages.

    Amy Mazur is Associate Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Washington State University and co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. Professor Mazur is the author or editor of four books, including Gender Bias and the State and most recently, Theorizing Feminist Policy.  She has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, French Politics and Society, Policy Studies Journal, West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, and Contemporary French Civilization.  

    Dorothy Stetson is Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University and co-convener of the Research Network on Gender and the State. Professor Stetson’s research interests include women, politics and policy in advanced industrial states. She is the author or co-editor of several books, including Abortion: Public Policy in Comparative Perspective, Comparative State Feminism, and Women’s Rights in the U.S.A.: Policy Debates and Gender Roles.