David H. Kaplan is a Professor of Geography at Kent State University. He has written some 70 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has also published Segregation in Cities, Nested Identities, Boundaries and Place, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy, Perthes World Atlas, the four-volume Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, Navigating Ethnicity, and Scaling Identities. Dr. Kaplan's research interests include nationalism, borderlands, ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, housing finance, and sustainable transportation. Dr. Kaplan has supervised 55 graduate students and teaches courses on many different aspects of human geography. He is also the past President of the American Association of Geographers. He edits the Geographical Review, the flagship journal of the American Geographical Society, as well as National Identities.

Kathryn Hannum is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan Tech University. Her research interests include national identity, migration and diaspora, sociolinguistics, memorial landscapes, and geographies of sport. She teaches a myriad of courses and leads study-away programs that connect lived experiences to complex Geographic concepts, such as nationalism, migration, and tourism. Dr. Hannum has written several book chapters, as well as articles published in The Professional Geographer, GeoHumanities, and Journal of Cultural Geography, among others.