Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author or editor of seven books, three of which have won national awards. He is also a composer of grassroots and classical music and is a mandolinist, guitarist, and singer. Ann Goetting is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University. She is the author or editor of four previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker) Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology and (with Gary Paul Green) Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy (both Temple).