Nancy J. Herman (Ph.D., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University. She has researched, written, and taught in the areas of deviance, social psychology, the sociology of mental illness, and qualitative methods. In 1994, she co-edited with Larry T. Reynolds, Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: General Hall). Dr. Herman is currently the editor of the Michigan Sociological Review.