Contributors

CHRISTINE ARMBRUSTER is a photographer whose work has been published internationally and shown in galleries throughout the United States. Armbruster is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and splits her time between commercial food photography and editorial documentary photo projects, which have taken her around the world.

GEOFFREY E. CANNON is a first year student at William & Mary Law School. He previously worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Orrin G. Hatch, who served seven terms in the seat that was once held by Senators Thomas Kearns, George Sutherland, and William H. King, all of whom served contemporaneously with Senator Reed Smoot.

KENNETH L. CANNON II is an attorney in private practice and an independent historian who resides in Salt Lake City. His current longterm projects are a biography of George Q. Cannon as part of Signature Books’ new short biography series and a group biography of George Q. Cannon’s three oldest sons, John Q., Frank J., and Abraham H.

LARRY R. GERLACH is Professor of History Emeritus, University of Utah. In addition to Utah history, his research interests are early American history and sport in America. 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. He currently serves on the advisory editorial board of the Utah Historical Quarterly.

WILLIAM P. MACKINNON is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society. Since 1963 his articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in Utah Historical Quarterly. His published work on the 1857–58 Utah War is extensive, most recently the second volume of a documentary history published by Arthur H. Clark in 2016. He has been presiding officer of the Mormon History Association, Santa Barbara Corral of the Westerners, and the Yale Library Associates. Additionally, MacKinnon has been a vice president of General Motors Corporation, chairman of Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and president of MacKinnon Associates, a management consulting firm. He resides in Montecito, California.

JAMES R. SWENSEN is an associate professor of art history and the history of photography at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography and In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns Collaboration. He is also the recipient of the 2016- 2019 Butler Young Scholar from the Charles Redd Center for Western American Studies.

MEGAN WEISS is a reference archivist for the Utah Division of State History and Salt Lake County Archives. A graduate from Franklin University Switzerland, she plans to pursue a master’s degree program in public history.