Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where she also co-coordinates the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture. Her publications include Identidades imaginadas: biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba 1860-1898) and the collection Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (co-edited with Angela Rosenthal).

Graciela Montaldo is Professor at Columbia University in New York, USA. Her research explores Latin American cultural history, focusing on the production and circulation of cultural practices as they intersect with politics. She is the author of Museum of Consumption: Archives of Mass Culture in Argentina and co-editor of The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics, among other publications.