Margo Machida, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, she is a scholar, independent curator, and cultural critic specializing in Asian American art and visual culture. She has lectured widely on her research both nationally and internationally, and served as a curatorial advisor for the inaugural 2017 Honolulu Biennial. Her book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2009) received the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. She has published extensively, frequently contributing to journals including Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, and Third Text; and to edited volumes and exhibition catalogues including Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision (University of California Press, 2022), XianRui: Ten Years (Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 2018), Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (NYU Press, 2013), Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces (Meritage Press, 2012), A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press, 2008). Machida received the 2021 College Art Association Excellence in Diversity Award, and is a co-founder of GODZILLA: Asian American Art Network (1990–2001).

Elena Tajima Creef is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives (Illinois University Press 2022) and Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body (NYU 2004). Her current research focuses on photographic histories of Japanese War Brides, the healing power of horses, and historical memory of The Battle of Little Bighorn.