J. Justin Castro received his B.A. in history from Northeastern State University in 2005 and his M.A. in history from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2008. His M.A. focused on the history of song and ethnic interaction in the Cherokee Nation. While working on his M.A., he gave six conference papers based on his research, including one at the Mid-America Conference on History and another at the Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society. He is presently a Ph.D. student studying postcolonial Latin American history and his major advisor is Dr. Terry Rugeley. Mr. Castro is assisting the Oklahoma Folklife Council with a video production on Latino folklife in Oklahoma and leads two discussion sections of a U.S. Survey course (post 1865) as a teaching assistant. Mr. Castro has two articles under review at the Chronicles of Oklahoma.