Contributors

Abstract

REBECCA ANDERSEN teaches US History and Public History at Utah State University. She received a PhD in history from Arizona State University. Her work centers on twentieth-century Mormon environmental and urban history and has been published in the Utah Historical Quarterly. Andersen's recent book chapter, “‘For the Strength of the Hills’: Casting a Concrete Zion” appeared in The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays in Mormon Environmental History (2019).SARA DANT is Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor and Chair of History at Weber State University. Her work focuses on environmental politics in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the creation and development of consensus and bipartisanism. She is the author of Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West, an advisor and interviewee for Ken Burns's forthcoming documentary film The American Buffalo, the author of several prize-winning articles on western environmental politics, the co-author of the two-volume Encyclopedia of American National Parks, and the author of chapters for three books on Utah.WILLIAM T. PARRY is Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah. He taught geological subjects at Texas Tech University and the University of Utah and has worked for oil and mining companies. Parry's latest book is Utah's Nineteenth-Century Stone Quarries (2020). His wife Gayle is the great-granddaughter of William S. Godbe and the granddaughter of Anthony H. Godbe.LAURIE J. BRYANT spent her childhood in what were then the wilds of southern California—hills and deserts, bays and beaches—and she chose a career that allowed her to work in those places, paleontology. After earning a Bachelor's degree in geology at Occidental College, she went to the South Dakota School of Mines to study with the famous R. W. Wilson, and then to the University of California, Berkeley. Bryant's two sons grew up as she did, in the outdoors. After a series of consulting jobs, she became one of the first Regional Paleontologists for the Bureau of Land Management, first in Wyoming and then in Utah. Thanks to the influence of Thomas Carter and W. Randall Dixon, Utah's history and architecture captured Bryant's interest after she retired and have held it ever since.MICHAEL W. HOMER is a Salt Lake City trial lawyer who has written books and articles concerning Utah and Mormon history. He is the past chair of the Utah Board of State History, a fellow of the Utah State Historical Society, chair of the J. Willard Marriott Library Advisory Board, a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and a past president of the Alta Club. He serves as the Honorary Italian Consul in Utah and was recently recognized by the President of the Italian Republic as a Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella D'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy).