Thomas X. Sarmiento earned his PhD in 2014 with his dissertation The Heartland of Empire: Queer Cultural Imaginaries of Filipinas/os in the Midwest. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University and a faculty member of their gender, women, and sexuality studies department.
Joseph Bauerkemper earned his PhD in 2008 with his dissertation Narrating Nationhood: Radical Histories in Native Fiction. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Jason Ruiz is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated faculty with the Program in Gender Studies and the Institute for Latino Studies.
