Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the many scholars, colleagues, and friends who helped to shape the development of our project, whether they know it or not: Ellie Anderson, Amber Batura, Emanuela Bianchi, Stephanie Borst, Susan Bredlau, Jeremy Brown, Shouta Brown, Regina Burch, Kim Calvert, Edward Casey, Sharyn Clough, Erin Collopy, Darian Condarco, Dean Conrad, Amy Coplan, Sharon Crasnow, Ann Cudd, Sean Cunningham, Ben Davis, Duane Davis, Sarah Fayad, Taina Figueroa, Frank Garro, Ann Garry, Mercer Gary, Mani Gilmore, Erinn Gilson, Tiffany Gonzalez, Elizabeth Goodstein, Lauren Guilmette, Barbara Hahn, Pam Hall, Heidi Higgins, Sabrina Hom, Katie Howard, Dustin Howes, Krystal Humphreys, Marta Jimenez, David Joannides, Tamsin Kimoto, Lisa Knisely, Stephanie Koziej, Samantha Lack, Melissa Lambert, Kyoo Lee, Sarah Lee, Kirsten Leng, Liliana Levy-Hermecz, Anne Libera, Sheila Lintott, Jorge Lizarzaburu, Kym Maclaren, Jackie Manz, Noelle McAfee, Ian McDowell, Sean Mei-ghoo, Ron Millam, Albert G. Mosely, Makina Moses, Sarah Myers, Chloe Nathan, Emalee Nelson, Jacques Ntonme, Kelly Oliver, Susan Ottzen, Alonso Padron, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Julie Piering, John Protevi, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Reda Rafei, Michael Rangel, Mary Rawlinson, Rebecca Ring, Dave Roediger, Monique Roelofs, Whitney Ronshagen, Sheryl Tuttle Ross, Deboleena Roy, Ingra Schellenberg, Kim Schreck, Gretchen Schulz, Caroline Schwenz, Yael Sherman, Eric Shouse, Alan Singer, Coleen Sisneros, John Sitter, Lissa Skitolsky, Courtney Slavin, Elizabeth V. Spelman, Victoria Stambaugh, Tracy Stewart, Malini Suchak, Ronald Sundstrom, Sitar Terrass-Shah, Sam Timme, Giang Trinh, Heather Turveville, Joanne Waugh, Alison Weir, Alice Weiss, James Winchester, and George Yancy.

We thank our editors at University of Minnesota Press, Danielle Kasprzak, Mike Stoffel, Ana Bichanich, and Anne Carter for their expert and enthusiastic guidance. We are grateful to Emory University’s Sarah E. McKee for her guidance with the online-access edition and to Rebekah Spera for her excellent assistance with the index.

Finally, we thank our families for the laughter and love that helped so much along the way: Chloe Willett, Liza Willett, Grant Beecher, Dylan McBee, Joe Boettcher, Vickie Fridge, Gabriella Villalobos, Leslie Chiang, Matt Aharonov, our parents Joe and Ellen Willett, and especially Stefan Boettcher and Randy McBee.