Contributors

KENNETH L. ALFORD is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. Prior to BYU, he served as an associate professor of computer science at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and as a professor of strategic leadership, organizational behavior, and information technology at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. After almost thirty years of active duty military service in a wide variety of assignments, he retired as a U.S. Army Colonel in 2008. His current research focuses on Latter-day Saint military service.

REBECCA ANDERSEN teaches U.S. History and Public History at Utah State University. She received a Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University. Her work centers on twentieth-century Mormon environmental and urban history. Emil Whitesides, the subject of Andersen’s article in this issue, is her great-grandfather.

ROBERT S. MEANS has been the English Language and Literature Librarian at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library since 1996. He is the co-author of Arthur Symons, Critic among Critics: An Annotated Bibliography (2007) and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature (2009). He has published articles on James Joyce and the Great War poets and is one of the founders of the Mormon Literature and Creative Arts database, developed and hosted at BYU.

ALLAN KENT POWELL received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. He worked as a historian for the Utah State Historical Society from 1969 until his retirement in 2013, including as managing editor of Utah Historical Quarterly. Powell is the editor of Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience, published by the University of Utah Press in 2016.

TAMMY M. PROCTOR is Department Head and Distinguished Professor of History at Utah State University; she teaches modern European and world history. Dr. Proctor’s recent books include World War I: A Short History (2017) and Gender and the Great War (2017), co-edited with Susan Grayzel. She is presently working on a study of American humanitarian aid in Europe from 1914 to 1924.