Kathryn G. Herr Montclair State University, USA

Kathryn Herr is a professor in the family and child studies department of Montclair State University. She has been actively engaged in practitioner research as a middle school counselor and teacher. She has studied issues of ethnic identity and gender relations in early adolescence. The results of her work have been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and The 1992 Politics of Education Association Yearbook. She was previously an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico and editor of the Sage journal Youth and Society.