Michael J. Bustamante is associate professor of history and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021. With Jennifer Lambe, he is coeditor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Bustamante also serves as director of Academic Programs at the Cuban Heritage Collection at UM, the largest archival repository dedicated to Cuban materials outside of the island and the largest collection of materials on the Cuban diaspora in the world. He also directs the undergraduate program in Cuban Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and its affiliated academic minor. His scholarly writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Journal of American Ethnic History, Latino Studies, Cuban Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Anthurium, and Cold War History.

Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles, works of public history, creative writing and five books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), which received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Dr. Guerra’s fourth book, published by Yale University Press in 2018, is titled Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. In 2023, Guerra published Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981, the third of her trilogy on the Cuban Revolution, with the University of Pittsburgh Press. From 2013-2024, she served as the Book Review Editor of the journal Cuban Studies.

Jennifer Lambe is associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brown University. Her most recent book is The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba. She is also the author of Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and, together with Michael Bustamante, coeditor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Lambe also directs a digital humanities project entitled “Beyond the Sugar Curtain: Tracing Cuba–US Connections since 1959.”

Daniel J. Fernández-Guevara is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He successfully defended his dissertation on July 28, 2022. His work explores migration, revolutionary identity, and solidarity. His dissertation, “Comrades and Internationalists: Forging Identity and Cuban Solidarity with the Other Spain, 1902-1961,” examines the impact of Spanish Republican exiles on Cuban solidarity movements in the twentieth century. His work has been published in History & Memory and Cuban Studies. He has taught courses on Caribbean history, world history and Latin America during the Cold War. Prior to his position as managing editor, Dr. Fernández-Guevara worked as editorial assistant for the Latin American Research Review.