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Yii-Jan Lin is a historian of ideas and biblical texts. She is the author of Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale 2024) and The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences (Oxford 2016).
Her current writing projects include an analysis of “cuteness,” its construction, affective phenomena, and social and political power; as well as issues of textuality and scripturalization vis-à-vis the New Testament.
Lloyd Barba is a historian of religion in the Americas with training in Latinx history; American race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the American West/Mexico borderlands. His scholarship on Mexican farmworkers in California (1906-1966) is based on oral histories and extensive archival research he has conducted. It also draws from the fields of immigration history, material culture, and scholarship on Pentecostalism and Catholicism. His more recent and ongoing research on the Sanctuary Movement (1980s to present day) brings together questions from religious history and immigration studies to understand the context of social activism and politics.