Joseph L DeVitis Editor

Joseph L. DeVitis is a retired professor of educational foundations and higher education. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Dr. DeVitis is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Two of his books have earned Choice Awards from the American Library Association, and four others have won Critics Choice Awards from AESA as outstanding books of the year, including his most recent book, Popular Educational Classics (Peter Lang, 2016). He lives with his wife Linda in Palm Springs, California.

Pietro A. Sasso is faculty program director of the College Student Personnel Administration at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Pietro Sasso has over ten years of professional and teaching experience in postsecondary education. As an administrator, his experience is exceptionally diverse, spanning several educational administrative functional areas. In each of these functional areas, Pietro has been provided with increasing levels of responsibility which demands various levels of leadership. He has provided significant culture change and improvements to each of his areas of accountability. As an educator, he is an emerging research-scholar with significant experiences as an alcohol educator and academic advisor to both undergraduate and graduate students. His research interests include identity construction of traditional undergraduates (college student development), alcohol misuse in higher education (student health outcomes), diversity in college access, and masculinity in higher education. Pietro has written and co-edited four textbooks, authored approximately twenty scholarly publications, and facilitated over twenty presentations. He is the recipient of the AFA Dr. Charles Eberly Research Award from AFA and is the ACPA Men and Masculinities Emerging Scholar-In-Residence for 2017-2019. He serves on the board of the Center for Fraternity/Sorority Research at Indiana University.