Bob W. White is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal and author of Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire.
BARBARA BROWNING teaches diasporic literature and cultural studies in the English Department at Princeton University. She has studied, taught, and performed Brazilian dance in Brazil, the United States, and Europe.
"The author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture, Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Constance Penley teaches in Film Studies and Women's Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America.