Jeffrey P. Shepherd is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Cathryn Halverson is a professor of English at Minot State University. She is author of Playing House in the American West: Western Women&#39 / s Life Narratives, 1839-1987 and Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936.

Kacy Dowd Tillman is associate professor of English at the University of Tampa.

Mike Conway is associate professor of journalism at Indiana University Bloomington.

Julia Creet is professor of English at York University and director and producer of the 2016 documentary film, Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family.

Rachel Conrad is professor of childhood studies at Hampshire College.