Ada Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Her most recent book, Cuba: An American History (Simon & Schuster, 2022) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.

Bonnie A. Lucero is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean examining the intersections of race and gender in Cuba. Her first book, Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba, 1895-1902 (U New Mexico P, 2018), explores how Cuban soldiers employed ideas about manhood to negotiate racial hierarchy during the transition from colony to republic.

Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller is a historian interested in the movement of ideas and people across space and time in the Americas. She is a graduate of Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied Latin American and Caribbean history. She is the author of Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World published by UNC Press (2017) and is currently at work on two book projects, one exploring African freedom-seeking/dreaming practices in early twentieth-century Cuba, and a long history of the interconnected “Gulf World” in the Americas. In addition to teaching and research, Muller has served as associate dean of undergraduate education and director of the University Honors College at the University at Buffalo. She is the founder of the Impossible Project, a transformative learning model for university teaching.

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Kelley Kreitz is an associate professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in Latinx Studies at Pace University in New York City, where she also directs the university's digital humanities center, Babble Lab. Her research on U.S.-based Spanish-language print culture has appeared in American Literary History, American Periodicals, English Language Notes, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and the digital mapping project  C19LatinoNYC.org. She was a co-director of the 2021 NEH-funded working group, “Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies” and of the 2020 NEH Summer Institute, “City of Print,” on New York City print history. She serves on the board of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston and on the steering committee of New York City Digital Humanities (NYCDH). She is completing a book called Electrifying News: A Hemispheric History of the Present in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.

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Carolina A. Villarroel holds a Ph.D. in Spanish literature with a specialization in U.S. Latino Literature and Women's Studies. She is the former archivist in charge of the Mexican American and African American Collections at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library and in 2011, she became a Certified Archivist through the Academy of Certified Archivists. Her expertise in U.S. Latino culture and literature has been fundamental to her positions at the University of Houston (UH), where she is the Brown Foundation Director of Research of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, a national program whose goal is to identify, preserve, study and make accessible the written production of Latinos/as in the United States from the colonial period until 1980. Villarroel also teaches literature, research methods and gender studies at the University of Houston. She and her colleague, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, are co-founders of the first US Latina/o digital humanities Center (USLDH).

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