david t. beito is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance During the Great Depression, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967, The Voluntary City; and Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. dbeito@ua.edu

allison l. elias is a postdoctoral research scholar at Vanderbilt University. Allison.Elias@owen.vanderbilt.edu

anne fleming is Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance (Harvard University Press, 2018). anne.fleming@law.georgetown.edu

bernard harris is Professor of Social Policy and Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has published widely on a range of topics, including the history of health and living standards and the history of the welfare state. His books include The Health of the Schoolchild: A History of the School Medical Service in England and Wales (Open University Press, 1995); The Origins of the British Welfare State: Society, State, Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800–1945 (Palgrave); and (with Roderick Floud, Robert Fogel, and Sok Chul Hong), The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 (Cambridge University Press). bernard.harris@strath.ac.uk

andrew kear is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. His research focuses on U.S. environmental and energy policy at the state and federal levels. Recently, he has been studying the governance of coupled human and natural systems for protected natural areas, including forests and wildlife corridors. Throughout his research and teaching, he applies an interdisciplinary political science and geology background to understand and address environmental and energy issues facing our planet. akear@bgsu.edu

jack lucas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is a Research Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and Assistant Editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science. He is the author of Fields of Authority: Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815–2015. jack.lucas@ucalgary.ca