CONTRIBUTORS

MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD is author of Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian (Dialogue Foundation, 1995). She lives in Arlington, Vir- ginia.

BRANDT D. COOPER is a pseudonym.

BRADFORD FILLMORE lives in Orem, Utah.

EDWIN B. FIRMAGE is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and the author, with Collin Man- grum, of Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (University of Illinois Press, 1988). "Reflections on Mor- mon History: Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition" was originally deliv- ered to the J. Reuben Clark Law Society on 18 February 1998.

LAWRENCE FOSTER is a professor of American history at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and author of Religion and Sexuality, which won the Mormon His- tory Association's "Best Book Award." His second book, Women, Family, and Utopia, discusses Mormon women's reactions to plural marriage and explores the changing role of Mormon women.

KATHRYN KIMBALL teaches English at Seton Hall University and is cur- rently completing a dissertation at Drew University on Samuel Col- eridge. She, her husband, and last child-at-home live in Maplewood, New Jersey.

JOHN FARRELL LINES is a medical student living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

CAROL CLARK OTTESEN lives in Mapleton, Utah.

BRENT PACE, a Utah native, currently counsels troubled youth. He lives in Salt Lake City with his partner, Ralph Martinez.

BOYD PAYNE is employed by Signature Books of Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of Utah Celebrities: A Guide to the Stars (Telestial Books, 1995) and was project manager of the New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Compre- hensive Resource Library (Smith Research Associates, 1998). He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Kylaya Rae.

PETER RICHARDSON teaches fifth grade in Los Angeles and lives with his wife, Heather, in Altadena, California.

ALLEN DALE ROBERTS, an architect specializing in historic preservation, lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. "Profile of Apostasy: Who Are the Bad Guys, Really?" was originally presented at the Chicago Sunstone Symposium on 23 October 1993.

L. REX SEARS holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and is currently studying law at the University of Chicago. He plans to practice 248 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought law in Salt Lake City, Utah. "Determinist Mansions in the Mormon House" is adapted from chapter 2 of his Ph.D. dissertation, "An Essay in Philosophical Mormon Theology," Harvard University, 1996 (available through UMI). He owes a debt of gratitude to his advisors, Christine Korsgaard and Warren Goldfarb of the Harvard philosophy department, and David Paulsen, of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, who read and reported on the dissertation to his committee.

LINDA SILLITOE is the author of eight books. She lives and writes in the Phoenix, Arizona, area.

ERIC G. SWEDIN holds a Ph.D. in history from Case Western Reserve Uni- versity. He currently works as the Webmaster at the Thiokol Division of Cordant Technologies and as adjunct faculty at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

ANITA TANNER lives and writes in Colorado.

MARGARET MERRILL TOSCANO is an adjunct instructor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She has an M.A. degree in classical languages and is currently finishing her dissertation in comparative literature at the Uni- versity of Utah. She co-authored the book Strangers in Paradox: Explora- tions in Mormon Theology (Signature Books) with her husband, Paul. They are the parents of four daughters.

BRYAN WATERMAN, a Ph.D. candidate in American studies at Boston Uni- versity, is former editor of BYU's Student Review, former associate editor of Sunstone magazine, and co-author of The Lord's University: Freedom and Authority at BYU (Signature Books), from which "Ernest Wilkinson and the Transformation of BYU's Honor Code, 1965-71" is excerpted. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.

DAVID P. WRIGHT is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. His books in- clude The Disposal of Impurity: Elimination Rites in the Bible and in Hittite and Mesopotamian Literature (Scholars Press, 1987) and Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat (Eisenbrauns, forthcoming).