David K. Yoo is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. He edited New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans (University of Hawaii, 1999) and wrote Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49 (University of Illinois, 1999).

Paul R. Spickard is professor of 20th-century American social and cultural history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He co-edited Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America (Routledge, 2003).

Roberto Lint Sagarena is an assistant professor of religion and of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research interests include religion and migration.

Sara M. Patterson, visiting assistant professor of American religious history at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles co-edited Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (University of Arizona Press, 2006).

Charles J. McClain Jr. is lecturer in residence and vice chairman of the jurisprudence and social policy program at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (University of California, 1996).

Brad Christerson is an assistant professor of sociology at Biola University, La Mirada, Calif. He co-authored Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations (New York University Press, 2005).

Rudy Busto is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His specialties include race and religion in the United States, and Asian-American/Pacific Islander religions, Latino religion and evangelical Christianity.

The Rev. Preston N. Williams is Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus at Harvard University, Boston. He directs the Summer Leadership Institute and is an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church.

Henry Goldschmidt, director of programs at the Interfaith Center of New York, is a cultural anthropologist and religion scholar. He wrote Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights and co-edited Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas.