» M. Heather Carver is an Assistant Professor of theatre and performance studies in the Department of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
» Joshua Gunn is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (University of Alabama Press, 2005).
» Sara McKinnon is a doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on refugee and asylum experience in the context of globalization.
» Ron Nix provided the banner image for this month's issue. Ron is a freelance photographer working out of Gainesville, Florida.
» John T. Warren is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy, and the Reconstitution of Power (Peter Lang, 2003), co-editor of Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts (Peter Lang, 2005), and co-author of Critical Communication Pedagogy (Sage, 2006).
» Crystal Watson is a web designer and member of the CoComm creative design team for the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
» Laura Winton is a writer, performer, and doctoral student in the Department of Theatre at the University of Minnesota.