ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 429429ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Robert Adcock is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American political
thought, with a research focus on the history, philosophy, and methodology of social science. He
has recently published on the history of political science in History of Political Thought (2003)
and organized (along with Mark Bevir and Shannon Stimson) a conference in the area, Historicizing
the Political: Anglo-American Approaches to a Historical Political Science Since 1900 (UC Ber-
keley, Fall 2002). He has previously published articles (coauthored with David Collier) on issues
of qualitative methodology in the American Political Science Review (2001) and the Annual Re-
view of Political Science (1999).
Mark Bevir is a member of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berke-
ley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 1999), New
Labour: A Critique (Routledge, 2005), and, with R.A.W. Rhodes, Interpreting British Gover-
nance (Routledge, 2003). He has also edited, with Frank Trentmann, Critiques of Capital in Mod-
ern Britain and America (Palgrave, 2002) and Markets in Historical Contexts (Cambridge University
Press, 2004).
Pamela Brandwein is associate professor of sociology and government, and politics at the Uni-
versity of Texas at Dallas. Her first book, Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and
the Production of Historical Truth (Duke University Press, 1999) was awarded special recogni-
tion in the Best Book Prize of 1999–2000 by the Sociology of Law section of the American
Sociological Association. She is currently working on her second book, The Supreme Court and
the Lost Doctrine of State Neglect. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of
Michigan and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Sociology.
Clare Ginger is associate professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Ver-
mont. Her teaching and research interests focus on policy and planning processes in the field of
environment and natural resources. She also works with colleagues on projects that integrate
disciplinary perspectives in natural resource courses and curricula. Her research appears in such
journals as Administration and Society, Policy Studies Journal, and Society and Natural Resources.
She has also published papers on interdisciplinary teaching in the Journal of Public Affairs Edu-
cation and the Journal of Forestry.
Mary Hawkesworth is professor of political science and women’s/gender studies at Rutgers
University. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory, women and politics, con-
temporary political philosophy, philosophy of science, and social policy. Hawkesworth is the