Karen E Rosenblum Author

Karen E. Rosenblum is Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, where she also served as Vice President of University Life. She was twice named a Fulbright Senior Lecturer for East Asia (Japan and South Korea). At George Mason’s campus in South Korea, she was a faculty member in Global Studies. She specializes in social problems and comparative approaches to stigma, and with Toni-Michelle C. Travis, co-authored The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexuality, and Disability.

Toni-Michelle C. Travis is Professor Emerita of Government and Politics at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. She was a fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Political Science at Simmons College She specializes in American government and federalism and has served as a political analyst on Virginia and national politics. She has taught and conducted research on urban, racial and ethnic, and Virginia politics, and is co-author of The Meaning of Difference and of Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics.