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358 MILLENNIUM-SECOND EDITION D r. Robin Stryker has been teaching sociology for more than 30 years and joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2018. After beginning her career as an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Iowa (UI) in 1986, she became an associate professor and full professor, leaving the university in 2000. Thereafter, she was a professor at the University of Minnesota (UM) from 2000 to 2008 and at the University of Arizona in myriad roles, including Earl H. Carroll Magellan Fellow, professor of sociology, affiliated professor in the Rogers College of Law and the School of Government and Public Policy, and research director for the National Institute for Civil Discourse. The recipient of a BA in sociology from Smith College and an MS and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Stryker also completed coursework in law at Yale University and Indiana University. She has written extensively on the politics of social and behavioral science in United States regulatory law, and she is published regularly in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Dr. Stryker has received several research grants and fellowships, as well as the university-wide Graduate and Professional Teaching and Mentoring Award from the University of Arizona in 2014. Other honors include the Graduate Mentoring Award from the UM department of sociology in 2007, the UM Scholar of the College Award from 2004 to 2007, the UI Faculty Scholar Award from 1993 to 1996, the Best Article Award from the sociology of law section of the American Sociological Association in 2005, the Founder’s Prize from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 1997, and the Barrington Moore Award from the comparative and historical section of the American Sociological Association in 1997. Most recently, she received Distinguished Article Awards from the American Sociological Association’s human rights section and its section on political sociology in 2018. She was also highlighted in the 64th edition of Who’s Who in America. ROBIN STRYKER, PHD PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY Purdue University Lafayette, IN