Marie Bussing-Burks is an assistant professor of economics at the College of Business of the University of Southern Indiana, where she teaches economics, focusing on microeconomics, macroeconomics, history of economic thought, and money and banking. She holds a master's degree in business administration and a doctorate of arts in economics. Bussing-Burks is the author of The Young Zillionaire's Guide to Taxation and Government Spending (2000), Profit from the Evening News: Using Leading Economic Indicators to Make Smart Money Decisions (2001), Influential Economists (2003), Money for Minors: A Student s Guide to Economics (2008), and Starbucks: Corporations that Changed the World (2009).… She has more than 30 newspaper, magazine and journal articles to her credit. Bussing-Burks serves on the boards of the USI Foundation, Evansville Commerce Bank, and St. Mary's Health System.
Anna Faktorovich is an English Instructor at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She is working on her dissertation, titled "The Development of the Rebellion Novel Genre in British 19th Century Literature," at the English Literature and Criticism Ph.D. program at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her M.A. in Comparative Literature is from the University of South Carolina. She is the founder, editor, illustrator, graphic designer and web developer of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal. She won the MLA Bibliography Fellowship and the Brown University Library Military Research Fellowship, and other awards. She served as a session… chair, moderator, presenter and secretary at a dozen academic conferences, including MLA and SAMLA. She published essays on hypertext, Don Quixote, and other topics. View her career portfolio at http://sites.google.com/site/annafaktorovich.