Lance Massey is an assistant professor in Bowling Green State University’s Rhetoric and Writing PhD program. His research interests include argumentative ethics, disciplinary enculturation, and identity-formation, particularly in relation to writing processes and written texts. His recent work examines the ethics of academic writing and publishing in light of “mesosocial” identity, treating academic identities as important parts of individuals’ self-conceptions and as worthy of concerns about (meso)social justice.