432 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea is associate professor of political science at the University of Utah.
She published her early research using experimental methods and rational choice theory in such
journals as American Political Science Review, Public Choice, Rationality and Society, and Jour-
nal of Public Administration Research and Theory. While working on an article on the Seneca
Women’s Peace Camp (with Debra Burrington, published in Women & Politics), she changed her
research orientation, publishing further feminist research on gendered organization in Interna-
tional Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration and on feminism and game theory in Sex
Roles. This peregrination through the discipline led her to her current research focusing on meth-
odological and epistemological practices in political science, published in Political Research Quar-
terly and PS: Political Science and Politics.Samer Shehata teaches Middle East politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published articles in various journals
about U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, Iraq, Egyptian politics, and other issues. He is
preparing a book manuscript based on his dissertation at Princeton University entitled Plastic
Sandals, Tea and Time: Shop Floor Politics and Culture in Egypt. He received the 2000 Malcolm
H. Kerr Award from the Middle East Studies Association for the best dissertation in the social
sciences.Joe Soss is associate professor of political science and public affairs at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. His teaching and research focus on the politics of poverty, inequality, and
social policy; political psychology and sociology; and research methodology. He is the author of
Unwanted Claims: The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System (University of Michi-
gan Press, 2000) and coeditor of Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform (University of Michigan
Press, 2003).Jutta Weldes is a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol. She is the
author of Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Uni-
versity of Minnesota Press, 1999), a coeditor of Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and
the Production of Danger (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and editor of To Seek Out New
Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics (Palgrave, 2003). Her main research interests cur-
rently include the critical analysis of U.S. foreign policy, the policing of neoliberal globalization,
and the role of popular culture in world politics.Dvora Yanow holds the Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method at the Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam. Her research has been shaped by an overall interest in the communication of mean-
ing in organizational and policy settings. She is the author of How Does a Policy Mean? Interpret-
ing Policy and Organizational Actions (Georgetown University Press, 1996); Conducting
Interpretive Policy Analysis (Sage, 2000); and Constructing American “Race” and “Ethnicity”:
Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration (M.E. Sharpe, 2003; winner of the Ameri-
can Society for Public Administration, Section for Public Administration Research’s first Best
Book Award); and coeditor of Knowing in Organizations: A Practice-Based Approach (M.E.
Sharpe, 2003). Her articles have appeared in a variety of public policy, organizational studies,
planning, and public administration journals.