Christina Greene is associate professor of history in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lived in Durham for twelve years, where she directed the Duke-University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women and worked for the Institute for Southern Studies.
William T. Hagan is professor emeritus of history at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Sac and Fox Indians, Indian Police and Judges, United States-Comanche Relations, and The Indian Rights Association.Daniel M. Cobb is associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Greta de Jong is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.