JULIA A. KUSHIGIAN is Director of the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts Program and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College.

PENNY PARSEKIAN is a freelance writer. Her clients include National Georgaphic, the New York Times, Brown University, Mystic Seaport Museum, and Connecticut College. She has published several feature articles in newspapers and magazines and has been a contributing editor or author for a number of books.