Christian Büschges is full professor of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Bern (Switzerland). His research areas include (postcolonial) perspectives on Latin America in a global context, nobility and elites in Latin America (18th-19th centuries) and the Viceroyal Courts of the Spanish Monarchy (16th-17th centuries).

Maria del Carmen de la Peza Casares is a distinguished professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, level III and is a founding member of AMIC (Mexican Association of Communication Researchers). She has been deputy director of CONACyT. She is currently working on issues of music, culture and politics, language policy in Mexico, horizontal research methodologies and discourse analysis.

José Manuel Valenzuela is Emeritus Researcher of Conacyt and Professor Emeritus of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef) where he has been professor-researcher of the Department of Cultural Studies. At this university he has been director of Department, Academic Secretary General and director of the journal Frontera Norte. His research addresses issues related to culture and identity, cultural frontiers, social movements, youth cultures, urban sociology and popular culture.

Lisa Blackmore is profesor at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, where she is currently Director of Global Studies and Director of the MA in Environment, Society and Culture. At University of Essex she collaborates with the Essex Collection of Latin American Art (ESCALA) and curates exhibitions for the university gallery Art Exchange. She has taught at the universities of Caracas and Leeds, and has worked as a curator, journalist and translator.