Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at theUniversity of Minnesota. She is author of We Are What We Eat:Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998),Italy s Many Diasporas (2000), and ForeignRelations: Global Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (2012); sheis also co-editor of Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender andDomestic Lives in a Mobile World (with Loretta Baldassar,2010). Gabaccia is on the editorial board of Gender &History, Journal of American Ethnic History andJournal of Modern Italian Studies. Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the Universityof Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: LifeCourse and Class Identity in French and German Workers'Autobiographies of the Industrial Era (1995) and co-author ofTelling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the SocialSciences and History (with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett,2008) and Family: A World History (with Ann Waltner, 2012).She is on the editorial board of Gender & History, theJournal of Global History, and the Journal of the Historyof Childhood and Youth.