Don Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Geography and Chair of the Geography Department in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996); Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000); and The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003). Mitchell is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in the Institutt for Sociologi og Samfunnsgeografi at the Universitetet i Oslo.

Lynn A. Staeheli is Ogivlie Professor of Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to her research on public space, she studies citizenship, political activism, and immigration. Recent books include co-edited volumes Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography and Globalization and Its Outcomes.