Frinde (Frances) Maher is Professor Emerita of Education and Women’s Studies at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she taught for twenty-seven years. A scholar of higher education, she is the co-author, with Mary Kay Tetreault, of several books, including The Feminist Classroom (1994) and Privilege and Diversity in the Academy (2007), as well as many articles. She has two children and four grandchildren, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.