David L. Eng is an associate professor of English at University of Pennsylvania, and his specialties include Asian-American literature. He wrote Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America and co-edited Q & A: Queer in Asian America.

W. Anne Joh, assistant professor of theology at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla., is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group. Her research includes colonization and postcoloniality, race/racism and religion, gender/sexism/heterosexism and religion, and Asian-American history.

Elliot Aronson is emeritus professor of psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine. 

Adam Cohen is an assistant professor of social psychology at Arizona State University in Tempe. His interests include moral judgment.

Lori Gruen is an associate professor of philosophy and of women’s studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Among her areas of interest is injustice to animals. As a guest on a May 11, 2004, podcast of Philosophy Talk, she discussed the morality of eating animals.

Roberta Kalechofsky is the founder of Jews for Animal Rights and Micah Publications of Marblehead, Mass. She participated in a panel on reaching out to religious groups at the Animal Rights 2003 conference. She requests that reporters contact her by email first and that they identify themselves fully in the subject line.

See a June 1, 2009, New York Times roundup and analysis of surveys on abortion and the possible impact of the Tiller shooting on public opinion.

According to a June 1, 2009, profile of Roeder in The Wichita Eagle, Roeder has connections to extremist anti-government groups and is a long-standing opponent of abortion.

A June 1, 2009, New York Times story quotes Roeder’s ex-wife as saying he was looking for a “scapegoat” to blame for his troubles. “First it was taxes — he stopped paying. Then he turned to the church and got involved in anti-abortion,” she said.