Annie Gustafson is a recent graduate of the Master's program in the Department of History at Arizona State University, where she specialized in urban environmental history and water policy.

Paul Hirt is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University specializing in the environmental history of the American West.

Kumiko Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at Nagasaki University and conducts research on U.S. and U.S.-Japan trade policy history.

Kelli L. Larson is an Assistant Professor in the Schools of Geographical Sciences and Sustainability at Arizona State University with interests in water-resource geography, environmental policy and management, and human dimensions of sustainability.

Christopher M. Loomis is a doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is entitled “Rechanneling Democracy: Public Television in America, 1950–1980.”

Jerome M. Mileur is Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, where he taught American politics and served as editor of Polity and co‑editor of the University of Massachusetts Press series Political Development of the American Nation.

Kevin Yuill is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sunderland.