CLINT PUMPHREY has worked as the manuscript curator in Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives since 2011. Previously, he was employed as the National Register Historian for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. Clint holds a master’s degree in history from USU and received his Digital Archives Specialist certificate in 2014. JENNIFER REEDER is the nineteenth-century women’s history specialist at the LDS Church History Department. She earned a Ph.D. in American History at George Mason University, focusing on women’s history, religious history, memory, and material culture. She is a member of the Mormon History Association, Western Historical Association, Utah State Historical Society, and Vernacular Architecture Forum. Recent publications include At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses of Latter-day Saint Women (2017) and Witness of Women: Firsthand Experiences and Testimonies of the Restoration (2016).
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DALE TOPHAM, a native of Orem, Utah, earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Master of Arts in U.S. History, both from Brigham Young University. He then attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in pursuit of a Ph.D., focusing on environmental history and the history of the American West. The essay on Cedar Breaks National Monument is derived from his doctoral dissertation, which is a history of environmental politics in Iron County, Utah. Dale currently teaches U.S. History at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas.
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JIM KICHAS is the Archives Manager at the Utah State Archives and Records Service. He holds a master’s degree in the environmental humanities from the University of Utah and a master’s in library and information science from Drexel University. He currently serves as president of the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists. He is also a representative on the Utah Manuscripts Association, a member of the Council of State Archivists SERI Advocacy Subcommittee, and a member of the Cottonwood Heights Historic Committee.
MICHAELE SMITH earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary and taught in Virginia for several years at William and Mary and the University of Mary Washington. She recently moved to Utah and now teaches history at Utah Valley University and Salt Lake Community College. She is also an archivist at Salt Lake County Archives and contributes to its blog.
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LARRY R. GERLACH is Professor of History Emeritus, University of Utah. He has written extensively on the history of sport in America and served as the university’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative. His current research includes the role of the Utah Native American tribes in the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.
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