1. Maxine P. Atkinson is professor and head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. She formerly directed and now serves as the faculty developed for NC State's First Year Inquiry Program and is a member of ASA's Departmental Resources Group. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including ASA's Hans O. Mauksch Award and the Southern Sociological Society's Distinguished Contributions to Teach Award. In spring of 2009, she became the first woman from NC...
2. Alison Buck is a doctoral student at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include privilege and inequality, formal organizations, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is currently working on a manuscript about teaching alienated labor with play-doh and conducting research on masculinity and video game work.
3. Andrea N. Hunt is a doctoral student at North Carolina State University. Her scholarly interests include implementing problem-based learning in introductory courses and teaching first year students to do research. She is currently developing a series of distance education modules for introductory sociology courses. Her dissertation research focuses on the challenges that families face when raising a child with disabilities.