Olaf Kaltmeier is Chair and Professor of Latin American History at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is Director of the Centre for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) in Bielefeld and Director of Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at Bielefeld University. His research interests include heritage studies, indigenous movements, and InterAmerican studies. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (2019) and co-editor of the Routledge series InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict.

Wilfried Raussert is Chair and Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is the founder and general editor of the e-journal fiar (Forum for Inter-American Research, www.interamerica.de), the online journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. He is Director of the International Association of Inter-American Studies and Chair of the research project "Entangled Americas/The Americas as Space of Entanglement(s)" at Bielefeld University, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Mississippi, the Universidad de Guadalajara, Humboldt University in Berlin, and University College Cork. He is the editor of the Routledge Companion to Interamerican Studies (2017).