Lyn Ellen Bennett is Professor of History at Utah Valley University. She has a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the nineteenth-century American West. She has published on patterns of divorce and custody in select Kansas counties and on barbed wire. Her advanced classes on the history of the West pay especially close attention to material culture.

 

Scott Abbott is Professor of Integrated Studies, Humanities, and Philosophy at Utah Valley University. His Ph.D. in German Studies is from Princeton University. Books range from literary criticism (Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel, Wayne State University Press) to literary travel narrative (Repetitions and Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary, with Serbian novelist Žarko Radaković, punctum books), and to personal essay (Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes—with Sam Rushforth, Torrey House Press) and Immortal for Quite Some Time, University of Utah Press).