Yanqiu Rachel Zhou is a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC) at McMaster University, Canada. She has published over forty scholarly articles and is the co-editor of two books (published by Routledge, 2016 and 2017) and a special issue on Time and Globalization of the journal Globalizations, 2016. She was the lead editor of a themed symposium on Transnationalism, Sexuality, and HIV Risk (published in Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2017). Christina Sinding is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, jointly appointed to the School of Social Work and the Department of Health, Aging and Society. Her research focuses on the social structuring of lay people's experiences of illness and care and their health-related decision making. Donald Goellnicht (1953-2019) was a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Canada. He was formerly Chair of the Department, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster. He made lasting contributions to critical race studies, diaspora/transnational studies, and queer studies - and, with this collection, brought these themes into important and lively dialogue.
