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62 | NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM LATINO WRESTLING EXPERIENCE ROBERT LEE MARIL, PH.D. JORGE IBER, PH.D. R OBERT LEE MARIL, PH.D., IS A PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. His scholarly research focuses upon issues of social inequality and history in the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands and the American Southwest. The founding Director of the Center for Diversity and Inequality Research at East Carolina University, he is the author of eight books including Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low–Wage Labor in Oklahoma. His most recent book is The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border which was the recipient of the 2012 Ray and Pat Browne Award from the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association. Born and raised in Oklahoma City as well as a member of the Sociology Department at Oklahoma State University for 10 years, he has always been a big wrestling fan. J ORGE IBER, PH.D., IS ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS. Over the past decade, he has specialized in the history of the Latino/participation in US sport; with particular emphasis on Mexican American athletes. He is the author/co-author/editor of five books (four in print, and one to be published in the fall of 2014 and tentatively entitled "More than Just Peloteros"). His most recent published co-authored work is Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance (Human Kinetics, 2011). He is also the author of more than two dozen scholarly and encyclopedia articles and series editor for the Sports in the American West Series at Texas Tech University Press. Finally, he is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the life, career, and historical significance of former Major League Baseball pitcher, Mike Torrez of the New York Yankees (and other teams). ABOUT THE AUTHORS USA WRESTLING