Author of editor of over a dozen university press books, Jeannie Whayne was the coeditor with Willard B. Gatewood Jr. of the first title published by the University of Arkansas Press: The Governors of Arkansas. Whayne has been professor of history in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas since 1990, where she has served as chair of the department and editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 

Kelly Houston Jones specializes in American slavery, usually focusing her research efforts on the trans-Mississippi South, especially Arkansas. She is the author of A Weary Land:
Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (University of Georgia Press).