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Notes on the Contributors
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Notes on the Contributors Lavina Fielding Anderson is president of Editing, Inc. She is editor of the Journal of Mormon History, a member of the Board of Edi~ tors ofSignature Books, co~associate editor of Dialogue: AJournal of Mormon Thought, former associate editor of Ensign, and past president of the Association for Mormon Letters. She is the edi~ tor of numerous articles and essays on various aspects of Mormon studies and has been published in a number of journals, including Dialogue and Sunstone. Newell G. Bringhurst is an instructor in history and political sci~ ence at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is the author of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism and Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier. He is completing a book~length biography of Fawn McKay Brodie. Todd Compton is an independent researcher who holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous articles dealing with polygamy in the early Mormon church, which have been published in various journals, including Dialogue and the Journal of Mormon History. He is also the author of In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Mario S. De Pillis is professor emeritus in social and religious his~ tory at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was the founding editor of Communal Societies and a founding editor of 234 Notes on the Contributors 235 The Joumal ofSocial History. He is a past president of the Mormon History Association and the author of numerous articles on Mor, mons, Shakers, and Norwegian immigration. Marvin S. Hill is professor emeritus of American history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism; co'author, with Dal, lin H. Oaks, of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins ofJoseph Smith; and, with Larry T. Wimmer, of The Kirt, land Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics. He is a past president of the Mormon History Association. Roger D. Launius is chiefhistorian with the NASA History Office in Washington, D.C. and the author of numerous books and monographs in the field of Mormon studies, including Invisible Saints: A History of Black Americans in the Reorganized Church; Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet; and, with John E. Hallwas, Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. He is a past president of the Mormon History Association. William Mulder is professor emeritus of English at the University ofUtah. He is the author of various works dealing with the Mor, mon experience, including Homeward to Zion: The Scandinavian Mormon Migration, and co,editor, with the late A. Russell Mortensen, of Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contem, porary Observers. ...