Michael C. Gizzi is professor of criminal justice at Illinois State University, where he teaches classes on constitutional law (criminal procedure), courts, criminal law, corrections, and introduction to criminal justice. He is coauthor of The Web of Democracy: An Introduction to American Politics and The Fourth Amendment in Flux: The Roberts Court, Crime Control, & Digital Privacy. He has published widely on search and seizure law, the war on drugs, and Supreme Court decision-making. He has been active in Presbyterians for Middle East Peace for a number of years, writing on the group¿s behalf and participating in the denomination¿s debates. He has researched reconciliation projects on several trips to Israel and Palestine.

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a former president of the American Association of University Professors and is current chair of the Alliance for Academic Freedom. His work is the subject of an edited collection, Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession. He is the author or editor of thirty-five books and has written 300 essays and reviews. Among his authored books are Manifesto of a Tenured Radical; Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left; No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom; Academic Keywords: A Devil¿s Dictionary for Higher Education (with Stephen Watt); and Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships (with Jennifer Washburn). His edited and coedited books include Theory in the Classroom; Higher Education Under Fire; Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture; Cultural Studies; Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War; Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis; and Anthology of Modern American Poetry.