Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at São Paulo University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. Two of her books have been translated into English: The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and his Tropical Monarchy in Brazil and The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930.

Heloisa Murgel Starling is Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and author of Os senhores das Gerais, Lembranças do Brasil and Uma patria paratodos.