Narrating the Storm

Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo received her Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed three years of graduate study at Tulane University in New Orleans. Working for the Southern Sociological Society’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, she co-organized a Silent Auction for the SSS Katrina Fund, Gulf Coast Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the ASA Minority Scholarship Fund. Additionally, she organized a panel session that directly led to this book project. Her areas of interest include gender, sexuality, the sociology of the body, immigration, Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of development, and Southeast Asia with a particular emphasis in Thailand. She is co-editor, with Carl L. Bankston III, of Immigration in U.S. History: An Encyclopedia survey of U.S. Immigration (Salem Press 2006) and has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Kristen Barber is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her areas of interests include gender inequality, work & occupations, sociology of the body, and qualitative research methods. She is currently studying the effects men’s increasing participation in the beauty industry has on the organization and experience of labor amongst women beauty works. Other projects include the impact virtual spaces have on ethnographic research and the subjective experiences of sociologists who experienced Hurricane Katrina (forthcoming in Critical Sociology). She is author or co-author of several journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, and she has received paper awards from the Mid-South Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Society. Barber earned her Masters in Sociology from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she lived before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.