William Deverell (Editor)
William Deverell is co-director of The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at the University of Southern California.

Greg Hise (Editor)
Greg Hise is an urban historian in the School of Policy, Planning, Development at the University of Southern California where he holds joint appointments in the departments of history and geography. He is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (awarded the Spiro Kostof Prize and Pflueger Award) and a coeditor of Rethinking Los Angeles.