gareth davies is a university lecturer in American History at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, having previously taught at the Universities of Manchester and Lancaster. His first book, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism, was published by University of Kansas Press in 1996. His second book, also by Kansas, is See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (2007). gareth.davies@history.ox.ac.uk

marian moser jones is Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Family Sciences Department in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. Her most recent book is The American Red Cross, from Clara Barton to the New Deal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). moserj@umd.edu

scott gabriel knowles is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. His most recent book is The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). He is also a faculty research fellow of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware and, since 2011, a member of the Fukushima Forum collaborative research community. In 2013–14, he is serving on Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s Special Advisory Commission on Licenses and Inspections. sgk23@drexel.edu

howard c. kunreuther is the James G. Dinan Professor; Professor of Decision Sciences and Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School, and co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books are At War with the Weather (with E. Michel-Kerjan) (2009, paperback, 2011), winner of the Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association in 2011, and Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry,” with Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow (2013). kunreuther@wharton.upenn.edu

andrew morris is Associate Professor at Union College. His research focuses on the history of public policy, particularly social welfare policy. He has written The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal Through the Great Society and is working on a book on the transformation of disaster relief in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. morrisa2@union.edu

patrick s. roberts is Associate Professor in Government at the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy in Alexandria. His research interests are public administration, American political history, homeland security, and disaster policy. robertsp@vt.edu