Bonnie McCay is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers the State University, where she also serves as Chair of the Department of Human Ecology and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change.  She has written extensively on fisheries conservation, on the effects of environmental and socio-economic change on coastal communities, and more generally on legal, cultural, and economic parameters of  common-pool resource management.  Books include The Question of the Commons (1987, with J. Acheson), Community, Market and State on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries (1998, with R. Apostle et al.),  Oyster Wars and the Public Trust (1998), and Enclosing the Commons: Individual Transferable Quotas in a Nova Scotia Fishery (2003, with R. Apostle and K. Mikalsen).  She recently contributed a chapter, "Emergence of Institutions for the Commons: Contexts, Situations, and Events," to the book The Drama of the Commons (2002, ed. T. Dietz et al.).   She has a lifetime appointment as National Associate of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, for her contributions to numerous NRC committees concerned with marine fisheries conservation.  She has been president or chair of several international associations, including the International Association for the Study of Common Property and, most recently, the anthropology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Professor McCay earned her B.A. in anthropology at Portland State University in 1968 and a Ph.D in anthropology at Columbia University in 1976.  She has been on the faculty at Rutgers University since 1974 and has had visiting positions at the University of California, Davis and Berkeley.