Margaret R LaWare Editor

James T. Andrews (Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1994) is Distinguished University Professor of Modern Russian History at Iowa State University. He is the editor or author of five books, including an acclaimed two-volume cultural history of the Soviet space program titled Red Cosmos (2009) and Into the Cosmos (2011) respectively. His fellowships and awards include the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Margaret R. LaWare (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1993) is Associate Professor of English and Speech Communication at Iowa State University where she has been Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. The author of numerous articles in major journals such as College English and Women’s Studies in Communication, she is currently completing a book titled Speaking to America’s Women: Commencement Speeches, Women’s Colleges, and Feminist Movements.