Susan Laird is Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, and Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches philosophy of education and feminist thought and serves as Educational Studies Program Development Coordinator. Author of MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: PHILOSOPHICAL MOTHER OF COEDUCATION (2008, Continuum Library of Educational Thought, volume 15) and president of the Philosophy of Education Society in 2007, she edited PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1997 and has published articles in other PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION yearbooks as well as HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, EDUCATIONAL THEORY, CURRICULUM INQUIRY, PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC EDUCATION REVIEW, STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, other journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. The focus of her research is the culturally diverse, Anglophone philosophical and literary gender history of coeducation, childrearing, and arts education. With Susan Douglas Franzosa and Lucy Townsend in 2006, she has founded EDUCATING WOMEN, an international and intergenerational community of learning and inquiry on women, gender, and education. EDUCATING WOMEN responds to a perceived generation gap in scholarship on women and education and also to a widespread limit-situation for this field, one that weakens the thoughtfulness of girls' and women's education at all levels in diverse settings: in general, the field's senior scholars often lack opportunities for collaborative work, while interested junior scholars often lack opportunities for adequately diversified advanced studies of women, gender, and education. Funded by various sources, this project will combine distance-education technologies, annual special-interest-group meetings within the American Educational Studies Association & National Women's Studies Association, publications online and in print, face-to-face intergenerational collaborations, and international conferences. Its purposes are to broaden, deepen, and more extensively share specialized knowledge, thought, and ongoing scholarship on women, gender, and education and thus to construct unprecedented opportunities for novice, mid-career, and senior scholars to undertake advanced learning and inquiry in this new field of scholarship that serves the professional development of thoughtful educational leadership, policy, and practice affecting girls and women. For more information on EDUCATING WOMEN see www.educatingwomen.net.The Educational Studies (EDS) Program at the University of Oklahoma offers liberally educated practitioners of education an interdisciplinary option for individualized pursuit of the M.Ed. and Ph.D. within a community of collaborative learning, original inquiry, and mutual support. Currently active in Human Relations, Women's & Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and the College of Education's TE-PLUS program, EDS faculty provide close mentorship to EDS graduate students and are themselves well-published scholars with extensive professional backgrounds as educators in day-care centers, schools, colleges, universities, and social settlements. Graduate study in EDS is a scholarly apprenticeship, preparatory for positions of intellectual leadership as professional educators and educators-of-educators, with an explicit research, teaching, and service mission: To foster social justice, non-violence, and democratic life through interpretive, critical, and normative inquiry in historical, philosophical, legal, social, and cultural studies of education--education for children and for adults, by various means, formal and informal, in diverse settings, local and global. For more information see http://education.ou.edu/. Within this program, Laird advises and teaches graduate students in philosophy of education and, in conjunction with the University of Oklahoma's graduate certificate program in Women's & Gender Studies, also educational women's and gender studies. Under Laird's advisement, students in this program have founded and continue to lead the Oklahoma Educational Studies Association, a state-level affiliate of the American Educational Studies Association, as well as the Oklahoma Mothers & Educators Collaborative, an ad hoc community of parent-students and their local advocates, who are economically, sexually, and culturally diverse, working with CampFire USA in order to make graduate study more family-friendly. Graduates of Laird's doctoral advising include Susan Birden (SUNY-Buffalo State), author of RETHINKING SEXUAL IDENTITY IN EDUCATION, and Jeffrey Ayala Milligan (Florida State University), author of NEGOTIATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. Laird is an alumna of Cornell University (Ph.D, M.A.T.) and Vassar College (A.B.).