Colleen McDannell is a professor of history and the Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is a specialist in American religions. In 2019, her book Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy won an award given by the Organization of American Historians. Her publications in visual and material culture include the edited volume Catholics in the Movies (2007), Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression (2004), and now classic Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America (1995).

Jennifer Reeder is the nineteenth- century women’s history specialist at the LDS Church History Department in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has co- authored three collections of women’s writings and written a narrative history of Emma Smith. Reeder grew up playing under the quilts her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother sewed, and has an innate interest in folk art. At George Mason University, where she earned her PhD in American history, Reeder studied religious history, memory, and material culture.

Josh Probert is an independent historian and historic design consultant who specializes in the material culture of nineteenth-century domestic and religious life. A graduate of the Program in Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, he earned a PhD from the University of Delaware in cooperation with the Winterthur Museum.

Glen Nelson is the author of thirty-three books, as well as essays, articles, short fiction, and poetry. As a ghostwriter, three of his books have been nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. He curated the museum exhibition John Held, Jr. at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art and co-curated Joseph Paul Vorst: A Retrospective at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. His most recent books include the first biography of Joseph Paul Vorst and a volume about the lost fiction of John Held, Jr.

Mason Kamana Allred is an assistant professor of communication, media, and culture at Brigham Young University, Hawaii. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in film studies. He is the author of Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity (2017) and Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (2023).

Amanda K. Beardsley is the Cayleff and Sakai Faculty Scholar at San Diego State University and received her PhD in art history from Binghamton University. Her research and publications have ranged from sound studies and feminism in Mormon culture to science and technology studies, gender, and faith.