Dan Cobb, a specialist in American Indian and Twentieth-Century United States history, is currently an assistant professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. His essays have appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Ethnohistory, and American Indian Quarterly. With Loretta Fowler, he is co-editor of Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 (2007). His monograph, Native Activism in Cold War America:  The Struggle for Sovereignty (2008), won the inaugural American Indian National Book Award in 2009.  In addition to teaching and writing, he has served as the program director for a series of public events devoted to Indian activism and curated an exhibit on the life and legacy of Clyde Warrior for the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.  In 2009, he became an associate editor for the journal Ethnohistory. His current research projects include a primary document collection devoted to Indian activism during the early Cold War and a revised and expanded fiftieth-anniversary edition of Tom Hagan’s classic American Indians, due out in 2011.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 2003.

Lance Janda is Chair of the Department of History and Government at Cameron University, and has served in a wide array of administrative capacities including Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, and Coordinator of the Office of Graduate Studies. He is the author of Stronger Than Custom: West Point and the Admission of Women, chapters on the Flying Tigers and the United States Marine Corps which appeared in Personal Perspectives: World War II, and “Shutting the Gates of Mercy: The American Origins of Total War, 1860-1880,” which appeared in The Journal of Military History and was then reprinted in Readings in American Military History and The International Library of Essays on Military History. His research focuses on the role of American military women after World War II, and modern warfare more generally. Professor Janda received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

Paul Kelton is an Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Kansas. Kelton’s primary interests are indigenous responses to colonialism. His latest book is Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007); and he is currently working on a book entitled “Cherokee Medicine/Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation's Struggle with Smallpox." He is the author of “Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Colonial Epidemics and Southeastern Indian Survival”; Ethnohistory 51 (Winter 2004): 45-71; “The Great Southeastern Smallpox Epidemic,” in Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson, (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2002); and "'At the Head of the Aboriginal Remnant': Cherokee Construction of a 'Civilized' Indian Identity During the Lakota Crisis of 1876," Great Plains Quarterly, 23 (Winter 2003): 3-17.

Jacki Thompson Rand (Choctaw) is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa Department of History.  Her publications include, Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State (University of Nebraska Press, 2008),  “Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American Colonialism and the 19th Century Reservation,” in Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies, Nancy Shoemaker, editor (Routledge, 2001), “Why I Can’t Visit the National Museum of the American Indian” (Common Place, 2006), and “Red, White, And Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage,” in Frontiers, 2008, a special edition on Native America of which Rand was a co-editor.   Rand was one of the co-founders of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (the academic version of the Big Ten) American Indian Studies Consortium (CIC AIS) and served on the Executive Committee from 2000-2006.  She organized a CIC AIS graduate research conference in 1999 at the University of Iowa.  The tenth conference is being hosted by the University of Illinois in April 2009.  Rand’s next project focuses on early 18th century relations among the French colonizers, Choctaws and Chickasaws in the southeast.  She has initiated a project to collect oral histories about sexual violence against Native women.  Rand divides her time between Iowa City, Iowa and her house in Ada, Oklahoma.

Linda Reese received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1991. Her current work in progress is a book on the lives of freedwomen in Indian Territory for which she was given the Catherine Prelinger Award from the AHA Coordinating Council for Women in History. She is also editing a collection of essays on twentieth-century Oklahoma. She has published, Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, in addition to several articles and book chapters.  Reese teaches U.S. History, the American West, Women’s history, and Oklahoma history at East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma. At ECU she is Director of the Oklahoma Studies Program and the Teaching American History Grant Program.