Margo Anderson is professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.  Dr. Anderson specializes in American social, urban, and women’s history and has research interests in both urban history and the history of the social sciences and the development of statistical data systems, particularly the census. She has published several books on the U.S. census including Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America (2001), coauthored with Stephen E. Fienberg. Her recent work has been on statistical confidentiality and statistics and human rights; she recently coauthored with William Seltzer, “Using Population Data Systems to Target Vulnerable Population Subgroups and Individuals: Issues and Incidents,” in Statistical Methods for Human Rights (2008).  In 2006 she served as the President of the Social Science History Association.  She previously served on the CNSTAT Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 and Beyond.  She holds an M.A. and Ph.D., both in history, from Rutgers University.