DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Howard Becker, Bud Duvall, Murray Edelman, Richard Fenno, Clifford Geertz, Egon Guba, Yvonna Lincoln, Lloyd Rudolph, Susanne Rudolph, Jim Scott, to name but a few, and others in many fields who have walked these paths before us; to our colleagues and students who walk them with us now, leading us to new ways of seeing, knowing, and thinking about these matters; and to the leaders of those directorates within the US National Science Foundation which have begun to grapple with some of these issues, in the hope that they, along with their counterparts in other states’ funding organizations, will pave new paths in the near future.