Silvio Torres-Saillant is an associate professor and director of the Latino-Latin American studies program at Syracuse University, the founder of the Dominican Studies Institute in New York City, and the senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. He is the author of An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, An Introduction to Dominican Blackness, and La Orilla: Hacia Una Nacionalidad. He lives in New York City.