Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

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430 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS


author of Globalization and Feminist Activism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); Feminist Inquiry:
From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation (Rutgers University Press, 2006); Be-
yond Oppression: Feminist Theory and Political Strategy (Continuum Press, 1990); and Theoreti-
cal Issues in Policy Analysis (State University of New York Press, 1988); co-author of Women,
Democracy and Globalization in North America (Palgrave, 2006); editor of The Encyclopedia of
Government and Politics (Routledge, 1992; 2nd Revised Edition, 2003) and Feminism and Public
Policy (Policy Sciences 27(2–3), 1994); and coeditor of Gender, Globalization and Democratiza-
tion (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). She is serving as Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, 2005–2010.

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is assistant professor of international relations in the School of Inter-
national Service at the American University in Washington, D.C. Among his publications are
“Rethinking Weber: Towards a Non-Individualist Sociology of World Politics,” International
Review of Sociology 12: 439–68; “Defending the West: Occidentalism and the Formation of NATO,”
Journal of Political Philosophy 11, 223–52; and “Hegel’s House, or, ‘People are States Too,’”
Review of International Studies 30, 281–87. He is the author of Civilizing the Enemy: German
Reconstruction and the Invention of the West. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from
Columbia University.

Cecelia Lynch is associate professor of political science and international studies at the Univer-
sity of California, Irvine. She works at the intersection of international relations (IR) theory;
social movements and world politics; peace, security, and globalization issues; and ethics and
religion. She is the author of Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in
World Politics (Cornell University Press, 1999), which won the Edgar J. Furniss Prize for best
first book on security from the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, and was cowinner of the
Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. She coedited,
with Michael Loriaux, Law and Moral Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press,
2000) and has written articles on the UN, the antiglobalization movement, peace movements and
internationalism, religious perspectives on multiculturalism, narrative and interpretive methods,
and conceptual issues in IR theory.

Steven Maynard-Moody is director of the Policy Research Institute and professor of public
administration at the University of Kansas. In addition to the current chapter, he and Michael
Musheno collaborated on the field research that resulted in their recent book, Cops, Teachers,
Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press, 2003),
which in 2005 received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the American Political Science Asso-
ciation and the award for Best Book of Public Administration Scholarship given by the American
Society of Public Administration. He is currently completing a multi-methods study of justice
norms in police stops.

Dean E. McHenry, Jr. is professor of political science at Claremont Graduate University in
California. Specializing in comparative politics, with a focus on Africa and India, his research has
included studies of rural development and the thwarted socialist transition in Tanzania; the cre-
ation of states and the demise of a public corporation in Nigeria; elections and state creation in
India; and local-level democracy and secession in California. He taught previously in the United
States at the University of Illinois and Brown University and abroad at the University of Dar es
Salaam (Tanzania), the University of Calabar (Nigeria), and the University of Kerala (India). He
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