Sherryl Kleinman1

Martha Copp2

Kent Sandstrom3

1Sherryl Kleinman is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her books include: Equals Before God (University of Chicago Press, 1984); Emotions and Fieldwork (co-authored with Martha Copp, Sage, 1993); and Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She is currently completing a book on feminist fieldwork analysis.

2Martha Copp is chair and associate professor of sociology at East Tennessee State University. She is co-author (with Sherryl Kleinman) of Emotions and Fieldwork (Sage, 1993). Her current research pursuits are disability, inequality, emotions, and the negotiation of co-authorship in academia.

3Kent Sandstrom is professor of sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. Most recently he is the co-author, with Dan Martin and Gary Alan Fine, of Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality (Roxbury, 2006), and co-editor, with Cliff Bryant, of The Handbook of Death and Dying (Sage, 2003). He is currently writing a book on the changing moral status and experience of people living with HIV disease.