Mary Anne Fitzpatrick Editor

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick is an Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology, the vice president for system planning, and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Prior to her appointment at the University of South Carolina, Fitzpatrick served in various administrative roles at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she also held the WARF Kellett Professorship. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 2012. Fitzpatrick also served as the president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (2012–2013). An internationally recognized authority on interpersonal communication, Fitzpatrick is the author of more than one hundred articles, chapters, and books.

Elizabeth A. Say has been the dean of humanities at California State University, Northridge, since 2004. Before that she served as associate dean at CSUN and was the founding chair of the Women's Studies Department and a faculty member for nine years in the Religious Studies Department. Say’s scholarly interests are in the interdisciplinary fields of religious studies, women’s studies, and LGBT studies, and she has published both books and scholarly articles in these areas. Say is the immediate past president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (2015–2016). She has held leadership positions in professional organizations such as the American Academy of Religion and the National Women's Studies Association.|Sally Mason, president emerita of the University of Iowa, provides a foreword.