C o n t ributors Carolyn Reed Barritt worked as a graphic designer at U-M and as an art director in the Seattle area before pursuing a career in illustration. In addition to her editorial projects, Carolyn has illustrated a picture book, The Day the Dragon Danced (Shen’s Books, 2006), and works as a fine artist. Her watercolors have been commissioned by a number of local clients, including the Carolyn Reed Barritt U-M Alumni Association and Food Gatherers.
Patricia Claydon
Edward (Ted) Parson is Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, and professor of Natural Resources & Environment. The second edition of his acclaimed book with coauthor A. E. Dessler, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (Cambridge University Press), was published this year. Formerly a professional classical musician, he has worked for the U.S. Edward (Ted) Parson Congress Office of Technology Assessment and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. On pages 34–35, he shares his insights about the Gulf oil spill.
Patricia Claydon (cover and interior illustrations for “Guns on Campus”) is an award-winning designer who is the art director of the alumni magazine for the College of LSA at U-M. She founded Ballistic Design in Ypsilanti in 1996. Her web and print clients have included Dow Corning, Fair Housing, Ypsilanti Freighthouse, and Avadhi Finance and Technology. Clarissa Sansone
Linda W. Fitzgerald is an award-winning copywriter and editor specializing in academic, health care, and businessrelated topics. After receiving her M.A. in English from U-M, Linda spent five years as senior copywriter for a Detroit-area advertising agency before launching Fitzgerald Communications LLC in Ann Arbor. Among her most recent journalistic projects is “For More Linda W. Fitzgerald Than 200 Years: One Family’s Farm” (Michigan History Magazine, September 2010).
Sheryl James
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Sheryl James is a writer in Brighton, Michigan, who won a 1991 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for a series of articles in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times about a mother who abandoned her newborn child. She also worked at the Detroit Free Press and Hour Detroit magazine. She freelances regularly for several magazines and teaches journalism at Eastern Michigan University. In this issue, she has written the cover story about guns on campus.
Clarissa Sansone is a communications specialist at the Law School. While an undergraduate at U-M, she won a Hopwood Award in poetry. Since receiving her M.F.A. in poetry from Emerson College, Clarissa has written about authors, trout farms, and Americana music, among other topics. She once had the distinct and rare pleasure of being the person on the other end of Bob Newhart’s phone conversation.
James Tobin is a journalist and historian whose books include Ernie Pyle’s War and To Conquer the Air: the Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, both of which received national awards. A former reporter for The Detroit News, he is an associate professor of journalism at Miami University in Ohio. He is working on a book about Franklin Roosevelt’s experience of dis- James Tobin ability. On pages 18–21, he provides his latest installment in this magazine’s series about the Law School’s intellectual history.
David M. Uhlmann
David M. Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and the director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program. He was a federal prosecutor for 17 years and served from 2000 to 2007 as chief of the Environmental Crimes Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, which is the office leading the criminal investigation of BP and other companies involved in the Gulf oil spill. On pages 31–32, he weighs in on the legal aspects of that continuing ecological tragedy.