Matthew Garcia Editor & Author

Angharad N. Valdivia is Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is Head of the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research. Her research and teaching focus on transnational popular culture studies with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity. She has published many books and articles on Latina/o media studies.
Matthew Garcia is Professor of Transborder Studies and History and Director of the new Comparative Border Studies Program at Arizona State University. He is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (2001), which was named co-winner for the best book in oral history by the Oral History Association in 2003, and the forthcoming book A Moveable Feast: Cesar Chavez and The United Farm Workers’ Grape Boycott.