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Joyce Bishop is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). Her primary research interests include the rituals and associated art forms of Mexican folk Catholicism and the expressive culture of the Chicano Movement. She has curated four major exhibits of Mexican folk art and served for six years as chair of the Folk Arts Advisory Board of the California Arts Council. She has served as the director of the World College West residential program in Michoacan and has also directed a special program for migrant farm workers at CSUS. The student group MEChA, the Mexican Consul General, and the governor of Michoacan have all honored her for her service to the Mexican community of Sacramento.
Katherine Borland is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University and Assistant Dean of the Newark Campus. She is the author of Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival and Creating Community: Hispanic Migration to Rural Delaware, as well as several articles on festival and dance, women's oral narrative, and literacy. Currently, she is embarking on a critical examination of voluntourism.
Ana C. Cara is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. She has written on Latin American and Caribbean folklore and literature. At the present time she is co-editing a book on folklore and creolization and completing a study of Jorge Luis Borges and the milonga tradition.
Sandra Garner is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University. Her research interest is in the revitalization of indigenous religious practices in the Americas. She has worked extensively with the oral-history project, "Discovering the Stories of Native Ohio." Her current work is focused on Native American perspectives on the Sun Dance tradition of the Lakota, from 1890 through the present.
Sydney Hutchinson received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from New York University and is currently a visiting researcher at the Berlin Phonogram Archive. She is the author of the book From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture, and her articles on salsa dancing, merengue, and ballet folklórico have appeared in Ethnomusicology, Folklore Forum, Revista Dominicana de Antropología, and CENTRO Journal. Hutchinson is a former pianist and salsa dancer, and her scholarly work has focused on transnationalism, gender, and the urban geography of Dominican merengue típico. She produced the CD La India Canela: Merengue Típico of the Dominican Republic for Smithsonian Folkways Records. [End Page 497]
