Peace and Faith

Michael C. Gizzi is professor of criminal justice atIllinois State University, where he teaches classes on constitutional law(criminal procedure), courts, criminal law, corrections, and introduction tocriminal justice. He is coauthor of The Web of Democracy: An Introduction toAmerican Politics and The Fourth Amendment in Flux: The Roberts Court,Crime Control, & Digital Privacy. He has published widely on search andseizure law, the war on drugs, and Supreme Court decision-making. He has beenactive in Presbyterians for Middle East Peace for a number of years, writing onthe group's behalf and participating in the denomination's debates. He hasresearched reconciliation projects on several trips to Israel and Palestine. Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts andSciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa. He isthe recipient of an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.He is a former president of the American Association of University Professorsand is current chair of the Alliance for Academic Freedom. His work is thesubject of an edited collection, Cary Nelson and the Struggle for theUniversity: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession. He is the author oreditor of thirty-five books and has written 300 essays and reviews. Among hisauthored books are Manifesto of a Tenured Radical; RevolutionaryMemory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left; No University is anIsland: Saving Academic Freedom; Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionaryfor Higher Education (with Stephen Watt); and Recommended Principles toGuide Academy-Industry Relationships (with Jennifer Washburn). His editedand coedited books include Theory in the Classroom; Higher EducationUnder Fire; Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture; CulturalStudies; Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the SpanishCivil War; Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis; and Anthologyof Modern American Poetry.