VERÓNICA CASTILLO-MUÑOZ earned her PhD in history at the University of California, Irvine. She is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Formerly a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego, she is the author of two articles on labor and migration in the US-Mexico borderlands. Her book, The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands, was published by the University of California Press.
MAHARAJ RAJU DESAI received his MA in Asian American studies from San Francisco State University and is pursuing a PhD in education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Philippine Studies at City College of San Francisco. His research interests include critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, youth participatory action research, language learning, critical literacy, critical mixed race studies, and Philippine studies.
INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY earned her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a tenured Lecturer in History at the University of La Verne, Point Mugu Campus. She is the author of several articles on mixed race issues and African American history and of The Allure of Blackness among Mixed Race Americans, 1862–1916 (forthcoming).
RUDY P. GUEVARRA JR. holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. He is author or editor of three books and several articles on racial complexity. Among his books are Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (2012) and Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific (2012). His current project is Aloha Compadre: Latina/os in Hawai‘i, 1832–2010. He won the Early Career Award from the Association for Asian American Studies as well as a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, among other honors.
VELINA HASU HOUSTON earned her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles and PhD at the University of Southern California. She is Professor of Theatre, Resident Playwright, and Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing program at the University of Southern California. She is the winner of many prizes, fellowships, and international honors including the Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, and her plays, more than thirty in number, have been performed in theaters across the United States, in several countries in Europe and Asia, and on television. Among her recent plays are Tea, With Music; The DNA Trail; and The Intuition of Iphigenia.
TERENCE KEEL holds a PhD from Harvard University and is an Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He works at the intersection of racial studies, history, religious studies, and the history of science. He is the author of several articles on the history of racial ideas, the human genome, and the relationships between Homo nenderthalensis and Homo sapiens, as well as the book The Religious Pursuit of Race: How Christianity Shaped Modern Scientific Ideas about Human Difference, which will be published by Stanford University Press.
JANET C. MENDOZA STICKMON is Professor of Humanities at Napa Valley College. She holds two master’s degrees, in ethnic studies from University of California, Berkeley and also from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of several book chapters and two books, Midnight Peaches, Two O’clock Patience—A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Short Stories on Womanhood and the Spirit (2012) and Crushing Soft Rubies—A Memoir (2004).
KAORI MORI WANT earned a PhD at the State University of New York–Buffalo. She is Associate Professor teaching Asian American culture and literatures in the Department of English at Konan Women’s University in Japan. She is the author of several articles on mixed race, interracial, and international couples, and racial hierarchies in Japan.
CRISTINA M. ORTIZ is a PhD candidate in social work at the University of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Norbert College. She is the author of several articles on multiraciality and transracial adoption. Her dissertation is titled “An Exploration of Parental Racial Socialization in Dual-Minority Multiracial Families.”
REBECCA ROMO earned her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Santa Monica College and a former American Sociological Association Minority Fellow. She is the author of Blaxican Borderlands: Living Race and Identity in Black and Brown (forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press).
JOANNE L. RONDILLA’s PhD is in ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a long-term Lecturer in Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. She is author or editor of several articles and two books: Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific (2004) and Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans (2007). Her current project is Colonial Faces: Beauty and Skin Color Hierarchy in the Philippines and the United States.
NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA earned her PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, as well as McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, at Northwestern University. She is the author of many articles and of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness (2010). Her current projects are Hidden Hapas: Multiracial Blacks and Blackness in Hawai‘i and New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i.
PAUL SPICKARD has a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Black Studies, Asian American Studies, Religious Studies, East Asian Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author or editor of nineteen books and fourscore articles on race, migration, and related topics in the United States, the Pacific, Northeast Asia, and Europe. He has received the Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, the Richard Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association, the Robert Perry Mentoring Award from the National Association for Ethnic Studies, the Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award from the Gustavus Myers Center, and other honors. Among his recent books are Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership (2013), Global Mixed Race (2014), and Race in Mind: Critical Essays (2015). His current projects include Growing Up Ethnic in Germany and Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity.
JESSICA VASQUEZ-TOKOS has a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is a former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many articles and the book Mexican Americans across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realities (2011).
LILY ANNE Y. WELTY TAMAI earned her PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, she is History Curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. She is the author of several articles and book chapters on mixed race American Japanese and related topics. She is the author of Military-Industrial Intimacy: Mixed-Race American-Japanese, Eugenics, and Transnational Identities (forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press).