AMERICAN ACADEMIC
Advisory Board

EDITOR

PAUL JUDE BEAUVAIS
Department of English
Salem State College

ADVISORY BOARD

ISAAC ABELLA
Department of Physics
The University of Chicago

THOMAS R. BAILEY
Teachers College
Columbia University

CLYDE BARROW
Department of Political Science
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

NORMA CANTU
School of Law
The University of Texas

MELVIN DUBOFSKY
Department of History
The State University of New York at Binghamton

CHRISTOPHER F. EDLEY, JR.
Dean of Boalt Hall, School of Law
The University of California at Berkeley

JEFFREY MIREL
David L. Angus Collegiate Chair in Education
The University of Michigan

MARY LOUISE PRATT
Silver Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University 

SHEILA SLAUGHTER
Louise McBee Professor of Higher Education
University of Georgia

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University