Contributors

ROD DECKER’s book Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room was published in July 2019 by Signature Books. He studied at the University of Utah, University of Chicago, and Harvard, was a soldier in Vietnam and a Utah political reporter, married the late Judge Christine Decker, and has three children and six grandchildren.

HELEN ZEESE PAPANIKOLAS (1917–2004) was born in a small coal town in Carbon County, Utah, to Greek immigrants, Emily Papachristos and George Zeese. In 1933, the Zeeses moved to Salt Lake City, where Helen graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in bacteriology. Papanikolas soon applied her gifts to understanding the world of Utah’s immigrants. She established a longstanding relationship with the Utah State Historical Society and the Utah Historical Quarterly, becoming the dean of Utah’s ethnic history.

RAÚL IBÁÑEZ HERVÁS is currently completing his PhD in contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza, in Zaragoza, Spain. He is also vice president of the Centro de Estudios de la Comunidad de Alabarracín (Center of Studies of Albarracín Community) and director of the Albaqua Project, which focuses on water sources in the Sierra de Albarracín region of Spain, and he has numerous publications. Ibáñez holds a bachelor of arts in geography and history.

CARLYLE CONSTANTINO is an independent historian currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a graduate of the Art History and Curatorial Studies master’s program at Brigham Young University. Her research interests include early twentieth-century American photography, visual depictions of Native peoples, and the New Deal.

BRANDEN LITTLE is an associate professor of history at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an award-winning author and teacher who specializes in the history of the First World War. From 2017 to 2019, he served on the Utah World War I Centennial Commission. Little has published numerous essays in forums such as the Journal of Military History and First World War Studies.

KENT AHRENS was educated at Dartmouth College and received his doctorate in art history from the University of Delaware. After two years as a fellow at the National Gallery of Art, he taught art history at Florida State University and the FSU Study Center in Florence, Italy, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and Georgetown University. He served as Associate Curator of Painting at the Wadsworth Atheneum and was director of several museums, including the Rockwell Museum and the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University. During WWI, his father, Fred E. Ahrens, served in the 26th Infantry at St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne.