ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 431received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a diploma in education from Makerere College (Uganda),
and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Michael Musheno is professor and director of the Program in Criminal Justice at San Francisco
State University. He is interested in legality, particularly the cultural force of law and other nor-
mative orders operating in and around the capillaries of the state. Recently published books on
this theme are: Steven Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno, Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Sto-
ries from the Front Lines of Public Service (University of Michigan Press, 2003); Lisa Bower,
David Goldberg, and Michael Musheno, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Stud-
ies (University of Michigan Press, 2001); and Trish Oberweis and Michael Musheno, Knowing
Rights: State Actors’ Stories of Power, Identity and Morality (Ashgate, 2001). He is currently
collaborating with Susan Ross on a field-based, interpretive study of citizen-soldiers.
Ido Oren is associate professor of political science at the University of Florida. He is the author
of Our Enemies and US: America’s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science (Cornell Uni-
versity Press, 2003). His articles have appeared in International Security, the European Journal of
International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other professional journals.
Timothy Pachirat is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale Univer-
sity. In addition to his current dissertation research—an ethnographic study of industrialized ani-
mal slaughtering—he enjoys playing “Tackle,” “Cooking Marshmallows by the Campfire While
a Wolf Monster Creeps Up,” and other such invented games with his two daughters, Parker and
Mia. In the education of the imagination, they are his most persistent and passionate teachers.
Ellen Pader is associate professor of regional planning and director of the Joint Degree in Re-
gional Planning and Law at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in
the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. She has done ethno-
graphic fieldwork in Latin America and the United States on the relationship among domestic
sociospatial relations, public policy, and housing discrimination. Her work has been published in
a variety of disciplinary locales including American Ethnologist, Rutgers Law Review Journal of
Planning and Education Research, and Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. She is
currently at work on a book on occupancy standards.
Frederic Charles Schaffer is research associate at the Center for International Studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. His
area of specialization is comparative politics, with a geographic focus on Southeast Asia and Sub-
Saharan Africa. Substantively, he studies the political culture of electoral participation. He re-
ceived his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author
of Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (Cornell Univer-
sity Press, 1998) and a forthcoming book on the hidden costs of clean election reform.
Ronald Schmidt, Sr. is professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach,
where he has taught public policy, racial and ethnic politics, and political theory since 1972. His
book Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States (Temple University Press, 2000)
won a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on
Race, Ethnicity and Politics in 2001. Author of numerous articles on Latino politics, language
policy, and immigrant political incorporation, he is currently at work on a coauthored book on the
impact of recent immigration on U.S. racial politics.