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Denise A. Austin received her PhD from the University of Queensland in the History Department of the School of History, Religion, Philosophy and Classics. Her research focused on the contributions of Chinese business Christians toward the making of modern China. Currently, Denise is serving as academic director, Queensland for Alphacrucis, a member institution of the Sydney College of Divinity. She and her husband were Assemblies of God missionaries in Hong Kong and continue to make regular visits to Asia.

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Elinor L. Brown is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, United States. She is internationally recognized in equity and social justice education through her series coeditorship of International Advances in Education, Equity, and Social Justice Research’, publications in distinguished national and international refereed journals; numerous national and international refereed presentations; invited international workshops; and the hosting an international conference on cultural identity for scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, East Asia and Africa. Her commitment to academic excellence is evidenced by numerous awards for teaching and service. Her research interests focus on the development of equitable education opportunities to maximize productive nonexploitive twenty-first century global citizenship.