Jackie Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow in the school's Gender Studies program. She has edited and co-edited a number of works on globalization, including co-editing a volume Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics published by Syracuse UP in 1997. Ernesto Verdeja is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, a faculty fellow at their Kellogg Institute for International Studies and a faculty fellow at the school's Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Temple UP published his Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence in 2009.