Susan Hoecker- Drysdale (PhD Louisiana State University) Research Professor-in-Residence, American University since 2007, is Professor Emerita at Concordia University Montréal, Canada. In addition, she has held teaching positions at William Carey College, Louisiana State University, Eastern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Iowa. She has been a Visiting Fellow, School of Advanced Study, and University of London. Her research and teaching areas include: sociological theory, feminist theory, the history of sociology, and gender. Her books include: Harriet Martineau: Studies of American, 1831-1868, 8 edited volumes (2004); Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, co-edited with Michael R. Hill (2002); and Harriet Martineau: First Women Sociologist (1992). Recent articles includes: “The Nobleness of Labor and the Instinct of Workmanship: Nature, Work, Gender and Politics in Harriet Martineau and Thorstein Veblen,” Chapter 6 in Thorstein Veblen’s Contribution to Environmental Sociology: Essays in the Political Ecology of Wasteful Industrialism, Ross E. Mitchell, editor (2007); “the History of Sociology: The North American Perspective”, co- authored with John P. Drysdale, in 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Clifton Bryant, editor (2007); and “Witch Hunts and Enlightenment: Harriet Martineau’s Critical Reflections on Salem” (2008) in Volume 12, Advances in Gender Research From the Nineteenth to the Twenty- First Centuries (2008). She is currently working on a book entitled The Feminist Tradition in Sociology (Wiley Blackwell 2009).