Roslyn Arlin Mickelson is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Women & Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She taught public high school in Southern California for nine years. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984 Mickelson held a postdoctoral fellowship in public policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 1985.