The Author: Arthur G. Neal is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty-five books and research monographs, including National Trauma and Collective Memory (2005), Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events (2001), Memory and Representation (2001), Intimacy and Alienation (2000), Social Psychology: A Sociological Perspective (1983), and Violence in Animal and Human Society (1976). Recent journal articles have focused on the impact of globalization on family relations in China; collective trauma, apologies, and the politics of memory; confronting an ugly past; and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. His current research interests include prosthetic memory; Hiroshima in collective memory; student rebellion in the 1960s; and values expressed in popular culture.