Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is now an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where until recently she had been Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and teaching courses in research methods, statistics and gender. She is the co-author of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias) and co-editor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi) and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum.