Andrew Karch is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the study of American state politics and public policy. He is the author of Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion Among the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Char Miller is professor of history at Trinity University and Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2007–10). He is author of Deep in the Heart of San Antonio, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, and Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture, among other books.

Zachary M. Schrag is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University. He is writing a book on the history of institutional review board oversight of the humanities and social sciences, and he tracks recent developments on the Institutional Review Blog, http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/.

Patricia Strach is a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University and an assistant professor in the departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.