Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Ph.D. (2006), UCLA, is Associate Professor at Texas State University. Her research and publications center on the languages used in borderland communities living between the Andalusí and Christian frontier from the ninth to the early fourteenth century.Jason Busic, Ph.D. (2009), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor at Denison University. He works on the confluence of religion, language, and ethnicity in the articulation of identity among the Arabized Christians of al-Andalus and the Moriscos.