Dr. Andrea Smith is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She holds a PhD in History of Consciousness from University of California Santa Cruz; an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Harvard University.  Dr. Smith is active in Amnesty International's Native Women and Sexual Assault Research Project. Her recent publications include: Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (2008); Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press, 2005); and Sacred Sites, Sacred Rites (2008). She is also the co-editor of The Color of Violence, The INCITE! Anthology and The Revolution Will Not Be Funded:  Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (2007).

Dr. Steven Salaita is Assistant Professor of American and Ethnic American Literatures at Virginia Tech University.  He has a PhD in Native American Literature and Palestinian and Arab American Literature from the University of Oklahoma, and a BA from Radford.  He is also the Executive Director of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers Inc.).  Dr. Salaita's recent publications include:  The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan (Syracuse University Press, 2006); Arab American Literary Fictions, Culture and Politics (Palgrave, 2006); Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today (Pluto Press, 2006); The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the Poverty of Liberal thought: New Essays (Zed Books, 2009).