Nancy Bonvillain is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics as well as Director of the Tutoring and Writing Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock. The editor of the first edition of The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (Routledge, 2014), her research focuses on the Mohawk language and other Native American languages. A prolific author, she has published textbooks on cultural anthropology, language and culture, gender studies, and Native Nations, as well as several ethnographies of Native American First Nations.

Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez is Professor of Education and of Anthropology at the University of California, USA. Her research offers a critical dialogue between educational ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and migration studies, with a focus on the schooling of immigrant children and youth. She is a past fellow of the National Academy of Education (USA) and the author of several journal and book publications, including Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and School: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019).