Mehan Vásquez Albarrán Betts Cole Edwards Forbes Jones Gordon Humphries J. Levin P. Levin Lytle Yonezawa Zentella CREATE	Amy Binder Assistant Professor, Sociology abinder@ucsd.edu Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University   Research: Cultural sociology, education, social movements, popular culture Book: Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press 2002) Best Book Prize of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Distinguished Publication Award of the Pacific Sociological Association Articles: Identity Trouble in Sacrosanct Battles: When the Elite and Grassroots Confront Each Other in Creationist Challenges to Schools Religion and Education (Fall 2001) Why Do Some Curricular Challenges 'Work' While Others Do Not? The Case of Three Afrocentric Challenges: Atlanta, Washington D.C., and New York State Sociology of Education (April 2000) Friend and Foe: Boundary Work and Collective Identity in the Afrocentric and Multicultural Curriculum Movements in American Public Education In The Cultural Territory of Race: Black and White Boundaries; Michele Lamont (ed.), University of Chicago Press/Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 221-48. (1999) Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youth? Co-authored with James Rosenbaum, Sociology of Education (January 1997) Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music American Sociological Review, Volume 58 (December 1993)