David Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Executive Director of the MacArthur Research Hub in Digital Media and Learning. He also holds faculty appointments at UC Irvine and is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute. Professor Goldberg's work ranges over issues of political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies, and digital humanities. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (2010), The Threat of Race (2009), The Racial State (2002); Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997); Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993). He has also edited or co-edited many volumes, including A Companion to Gender Studies (2005); A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (2002); Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (2002); Relocating Postcolonialism (2002); Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (2001); Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1994) and Anatomy of Racism (1993).

Linda Herrera (PhD Columbia University; MA, American University in Cairo; BA, UC Berkeley) joined the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Associate Professor and core staff in the Global Studies in Education MA program in January 2011. Prior to that she was a Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies (2005-2010) at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam where she was Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies MA specialization. Her major research interests and writing are around issues of youth and citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); critical ethnography of schooling; youth, employment and international development policy; democracy and education; and, more recently, youth, new media and Arab Revolution. Her publications include: as co-editor, (2010) Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. New York: Oxford University Press; (2006) Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt. New York: State University of New York Press; (2008) ‘Education and Empire: Democratic Reform in the Arab World?’. International Journal of Educational Reform; (2011) ‘Egypt’s Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor’, in Jadaliyya.