RON BEADLE, Principal Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria, Northumberland Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, England NE1 8ST, email:  <ron.beadle@unn.ac.uk>, was educated at the London School of Economics. He has written on executive reward management and local pay determination. He is currently working part-time towards a Ph.D. on the history of the idea of the good employer.

GENE H. BELL-VILLADA, Professor (and former Chair), Department of Romance Languages, Weston Hall, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, email:  <Gbell@williams.edu>,  has published essays, reviews, fiction, and satires in numerous journals, including The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, In These Times, Monthly Review, Commonweal, Salmagundi, Triquarterly, and The Nation. His books on Borges and on García Márquez are now standard classroom items, and his Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also published two books of fiction, The Carlos Chadwick Mystery and The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand: A Novella & 13 Stories.

ROBERT L. CAMPBELL, Professor, Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Brackett Hall 410A, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1511, email:  <campber@clemson.edu>, url:  <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html>, has various research interests, including theories of human development, the development of moral personality, and the nature of free will, as well as the historical evolution of moral psychology.

DOUGLAS J. DEN UYL, Vice President of Education, Liberty Fund, Inc., 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250-1687, email: <ddenuyl@libertyfund.org>, is also Professor of Philosophy at Bellarmine College. He has published books and articles in ethics and political theory as well as in the area of the history of philosophy. He co-edited with Douglas Rasmussen The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand, and recently published The Fountainhead: An American Novel.

WILLIAM DWYER, 26119 Parkside Drive, Hayward, California 94542, email: <wswdwyer@comcast.net>, earned his B.A. in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. His early contributions to Rand scholarship were among the first to be featured in a philosophical journal: The Personalist. These include such published articles as:  "The Contradiction of 'The Contradiction of Determinism'" (Winter 1972); "A Reply to David Bold" (Summer 1973); "The Argument against 'An Objective Standard of Value'" (Spring 1974); "Criticisms of Egoism" (Spring 1975); and "Egoism and Renewed Hostilities" (Summer 1976). Dwyer is currently working towards a Masters in Economics at California State University at Hayward.

MARTYN DYER-SMITH, Chartered Psychologist, University of Northumbria, Carlisle Campus, Paternoster Row, Carlisle, England CA3 8TB, email: <martyn.dyer-smith@unn.ac.uk>, spent the fall of 1995 as Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University (USA), gathering material on Elliott Jaques's life and work. Educated at the Open University, and Strathclyde University, his other research interests include the cognition-emotion relationship, adult development, and entrepreneurship.

DOUG FRAEDRICH, 4817 Godfrey Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22309, email: <fraedric@gwu.edu>, is currently a research physicist with the United States Government. He holds degrees in Physics from the College of William and Mary and in Statistics from the George Washington University. He has published articles in such diverse fields as statistics, optics, computer software and philosophy. His professional research interests involve the validation of scientific simulations. This epistemological research, combined with his personal interest in Objectivism, has resulted in philosophical investigations into the scientific method.

MICHELLE FRAM-COHEN, 6202 Satan Wood Drive, Columbia, Maryland 21044, email: <michal35@comcast.net>, holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She works as a computer programmer and freelance Hebrew translator. Her literary publications include book reviews, poetry translations, and short essays in Full Context, The Objectivist Forum, The Atlantean Press Review and Monadnock.net. 

R. KEVIN HILL, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Philosophy, Brentano Hall, 1818 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60202, e-mail:  <kevin-hill@northwestern.edu>, is the author of the forthcoming Nietzsche's Critiques, a study of Kant's influence on Nietzsche, as well as articles on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and MacIntyre.  

GREGORY R. JOHNSON, email: <gregoryrjohnson@mindspring.com>, is a philosopher in private practice in Atlanta.

TIBOR R. MACHAN, Distinguished Fellow and Freedom Communications Professor of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Leatherby Center of Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Orange, California 92866, email:  <Machan@chapman.edu>, url:  <http://communities.msn.com/TiborsPlaceontheWeb>, is also Professor Emeritus at Auburn
University's Department of Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford, California). He has written, among other works, Ayn Rand (Peter Lang, 1999), Generosity: Virtue in the Civil Society (Cato Institute, 1998), and Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (Routledge, 1998).

KAREN MICHALSON, P.O. Box 332, Southbridge, Massachusetts 01550, email: <arularec@aol.com>, url: <http://www.karenmichalson.com>, is a professional musician and  novelist. She is the author of Enemy Glory (Tor Books), Book One in her dark fantasy series of the same name, and she is the lead singer-bass player of her rock band, Point Of Ares. She contributed an essay to Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Press, 1999), and has written articles for many other national publications. She is also the author of Victorian Fantasy Literature: Literary Battles with Church and Empire (Edwin Mellen Press), a study of the politics of canon-making and nineteenth century fantasy writers. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

KIRSTI MINSAAS, University of Oslo, Department of British and American Studies, P. O. Box 1003 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway, email: <k.b.minsaas@iba.uio.no>, is a research fellow in English literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. Receiving her doctorate in 1998, her dissertation topic was on the role of Aristotelian catharsis in Shakespearean tragedy, and she is currently working on a project on the "exemplary hero" in English literature from 1590 to 1820. She has also lectured extensively on Ayn Rand's fiction, both in Europe and in the United States.

CAROLYN RAY, 2698 Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, email: <carolyn@supersaturated.com>, url: <http://supersaturated.com>, obtained her Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy at Indiana University, and her B.A. in philosophy at Hollins College. Author of a doctoral dissertation on "Identity and Universals," she specializes in epistemology and applied ethics. Ray practices philosophical consulting, landscape consulting, and web programming in La Jolla, California and on the Internet. She is also editor of the journal Objectivity, and heads Enlightenment <http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com>, an organization that promotes Objectivist scholarship.

CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, Visiting Scholar, Department of Politics, New York University, 726 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, New York 10003, email: <chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu>; url:  <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra>, is the author of the "Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy," which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY Press, 1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press, 1995), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press, 2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Press, 1999).

MATTHEW STOLOFF, email: <magnus2@ix.netcom.com>, holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati and a Masters in Labor Relations and Human Resources from the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. His current research interests include labor law, corporate campaigns, and corporate crimes. His online guide to Rand scholarship is at: <http://www.netcom.com/~magnus2>.

LELAND B. YEAGER, Department of Economics, College of Business, Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5242, email: <yeagele@auburn.edu> or <lyeager@mindspring.com>, is Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Auburn University. His most recent book is Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation (Edward Elgar, 2001).

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