Dirk Hoerder teaches North American social history, the history of global migrations, borderland issues, and the sociology of migrant acculturation at Arizona State University. He is the author of many books, includingCultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium, also published by Duke University Press.Nora Faires was a professor of history and of gender and womenrsquo;s studies at Western Michigan University, and a co-author ofA History of Women in America(forthcoming).