ROGER BISSELL, a professional musician and graduate student in psychology at California Coast University, email:<REBissell@aol.com>, url:<http://members.aol.com/REBissell/index.html>, is a writer on psychology and philosophy. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Reason Papers, Objectivity, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vera Lex, and ART Ideas.

ROBERT L. CAMPBELL, Professor, Department of Psychology, Brackett Hall 410A, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1355, email: <campber@clemson.edu>, url: <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html>, is a theoretical psychologist. He edited and translated Jean Piaget's Studies in Reflecting Abstraction (Psychology Press, due December 2000) and co-authored The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra (Cadence Jazz Books, 2000).

MARSHA F. ENRIGHT, email: <marshaenright@americtech.net>, M.A. psychology from The New School for Social Research, is a writer, psychotherapist and educator. Among her many educational and social projects and organizations: The New Intellectual Forum (founded by her in 1987), Council Oak Montessori Elementary School (founded by her in 1990), Camp Indecon, and her newly formed Fountainhead Institute. She has written about many psychological topics and lectured frequently at The Objectivist Center's Summer Seminar and elsewhere. Her interests are wide-ranging but always take a psychological bent.

MURRAY I. FRANCK, Esq., Assistant Professor of Law, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.), 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10010, teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College, C.U.N.Y., and holds both J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the New York University School of Law. In addition to other publications in law, economics, and ethics, he is writing a book, provisionally entitled "Moral Elegance: The Ethics of Non-Contradiction."

MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN, Professor of English and Theatre Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968-0526, email: <mgladstein@utep.edu>, currently serves as Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at her college. She is the author of The New Ayn Rand Companion (Greenwood Press, 1999), Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind (Twayne, 2000), and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Author of The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck, Gladstein has won international recognition for her work on John Steinbeck, including the Burkhardt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Steinbeck Studies in 1996.

LESTER H. HUNT, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 600 North Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; email: <lhhunt@facstaff.wisc.edu>, url: <http://philosophy.wisc.edu/hunt/default.htm>, is the author of Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue (Routledge) and Character and Culture (Rowman and Littlefield).

D. BARTON JOHNSON, Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic and Russian Studies, Phelps Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, email: <chtodel@gte.net>, specializes in contemporary Russian and American literature and has published extensively on Russian emigre writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Sasha Sokolov, and Vasily Aksyonov. A two-time president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society, he is founding editor of the journal Nabokov Studies and of the electronic discussion forum Nabokv-L.

GREGORY R. JOHNSON, <gregoryjohnson@mindspring.com>, is a philosopher in private practice in Atlanta. In addition to consulting with individuals and institutions, he runs The Invisible College, a private educational organization offering classes on topics in philosophy, psychology, and literature.

MICHELLE MARDER KAMHI, <aristos@aristos.org>, url: <http://www.aristos.org>, is an independent scholar and critic. She co-edits Aristos (an arts journal informed by Ayn Rand's philosophy of art), and is co-author of What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, published by Open Court earlier this year. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned an M.A. in Art History at Hunter College, State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.). Prior to her association with Aristos, she worked as an editor and freelance writer, and conceived, produced, and directed Books Our Children Read, a documentary educational film on literature in the school curriculum.

LARRY J. SECHREST, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Free Enterprise Institute, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas 79832, email: <larrys@sulross.edu>, is the author of Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model (Quorum Books). His research interests include free banking, business cycles, the history of economic thought, economic history, and the philosophical foundations of economics.

RICHARD SHEDENHELM, Head of the Serials Technical Processing Section, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia 30602-1642, email: <summa@arches.uga.edu>, is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Critics of Environmentalism: A Comprehensive Bibliography Covering Philosophy, Economics, and Science and "Are We Burying Ourselves in Garbage?" (The Freeman, April 1995). He is the publisher of Summa Philosophiae, a monthly philosophical newsletter. He is currently completing his Master's thesis on certain aspects of C. S. Peirce's graphical logic.

AEON J. SKOBLE, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York 10996, email: <ca3321@usma.edu>, url: <http://webhost.bridgew.edu/askoble>, is editor of the annual journal Reason Papers, and co-editor of the anthology, Political Philosophy: Essential Selections (Prentice- Hall 1999). He has also published in The Review of Metaphysics, Modern Schoolman and Ideas on Liberty. His main areas of scholarship are ethics, political philosophy, and logic. The ideas expressed here are his own.

LOUIS TORRES, <aristos@aristos.org>, url: <http://www.aristos.org>, is an independent scholar and critic. He co-edits Aristos (an arts journal informed by Ayn Rand's philosophy of art), which he founded in 1982, and is co-author of What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, published by Open Court this year. A graduate of Rutgers University, where he majored in Psychology, he earned an M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to founding Aristos, he taught English and arts appreciation in public and private high schools. He is a specialist in the fiction of Jack Schaefer, author of Shane.

DANIEL UST, email: <neptune@mars.superlink.net>, url: <http://mars.superlink.net/neptune>, writes on various topics. His essays have appeared in The Free Radical, Full Context, Objectivity, Summa Philosophiae, and elsewhere.

BARRY VACKER, Assistant Professor, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, email: <barryvacker@comcast.net>, earned a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, where his studies and dissertation covered philosophy, aesthetics, law, and media. He has authored articles and book chapters on aesthetics, culture, and technology. His forthcoming book, entitled Chaos at The Edge of Utopia, offers a radical new interpretation of utopia based on aesthetics and chaos.

GEORGE V. WALSH, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland 21801, has taught philosophy and the history of religion at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Eisenhower College. Having earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University, he is the co-translator (with Frederick Lehnert) of Alfred Schütz's Phenomenology of the Social World (Northwestern, 1967). A co-founder of the Ayn Rand Society (Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association) and a charter member of the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center), he is the author of such serialized essays as "Herbert Marcuse: Philosopher of the New Left," (published in 1970 in Rand's Objectivist journal) and the book, The Role of Religion in History (Transaction, 1998).  [Ed:  Professor Walsh passed away in January 2002; the Spring 2002 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies was dedicated to his memory, and to the memory of Don Lavoie, Robert Nozick, and Jack Schwartzman.]

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