Editors-in-Chief

john powell, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law, is regarded internationally as an expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty, and the law. He has published two books, one edited volume, and produced over sixty articles and book chapters treating the subjects of racial justice and regionalism; concentrated poverty and urban sprawl; housing and school segregation; opportunity-based housing; gentrification; disparities in the criminal justice system; voting rights; affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil; racial and ethnic identity; and current demographic trends. In addition, he has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Minnesota and served as a consultant to state agencies in Mozambique and South Africa.

Mac A. Stewart, Vice Provost of the Office of Minority Affairs, works in the field of race and ethnicity and post-secondary educational access. He has published more than twenty scholarly and journalistic pieces investigating educational programming for racially and ethnically marginalized students, financial aid distribution, counseling strategies with international students, minority students and self-concept, and post-secondary education in African nations. In addition, he has served both as a member of the editorial board and as Editor-in-Chief of The Negro Educational Review, a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Multicultural Counselors and Development, and as a manuscript reviewer for The Ohio State University Press.

Associate Editors

Georgina Dodge is Assistant Vice Provost for the Office of Minority Affairs (OMA) at The Ohio State University, where she heads the Collaborative Diversity Initiative, which helps to coordinate diversity efforts across campus and with the community. She has been at Ohio State for eleven years and prior to joining OMA, served in the Department of African American and African Studies and in the Department of English. She has a Ph.D. in English from UCLA, and her scholarship focuses on multiracial literatures and immigrant autobiography. Among her many community commitments, she serves on the board for Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio and has been a Big Sister for ten years.

Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. Working with the Executive Director, Dr. Grant-Thomas oversees the Institute’s U.S. programming and internal operations. He came to Kirwan in February 2006 from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, where he was a senior research associate. At the Civil Rights Project he directed the Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America’s Present and Future, and managed a range of policy-oriented projects that included work on the nature of structural racism, an examination of the impact of federal policy on housing opportunities for racial minorities, an exploration of the racial justice dimensions of transportation policy, and an internal evaluation of a community support advocacy initiative. He received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University, his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Managing Editor

Leslie Birdwell Shortlidge
Leslie Shortlidge comes to the Kirwan Institute with a varied background in writing, publishing, and editing. A native of Michigan, Leslie received both her BA and MA from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where she also worked as an editorial assistant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Leslie has written on a wide variety of subjects as a freelancer for various publications and projects. She has written advertising and promotional copy, technical copy, educational materials, study guides, feature stories on lifestyle and living topics, and archaeology for both adult and juvenile audiences. Leslie edited a book review journal for a nonprofit literary organization in Central Ohio before joining Kirwan.