Robert Emmett is Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Roanoke College and author of Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing.

David E. Nye, who was knighted by the Danish Queen in 2013, is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute and the History of Science and Technology program at the University of Minnesota and Professor of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. His eight other books published by the MIT Press include Electrifying America and When the Lights Went Out: A History of American Blackouts. His awards include the Leonardo da Vinci Medal (2005).