Matthew C. Gutmann is the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences - International Affairs at Brown University, Providence, RI.

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez is the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (City University of New York).

Lynn Stephen is Professor and chair of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Chicano/Latino Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.