Graham Cassano is an associate professor of sociology at Oakland University. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1991. He is the author of A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Brill, 2014).

Rima Lunin Schultz's website, Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods 1889-1963 interprets the history of Jane Addams's settlement house. Formerly assistant director at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, she is the editor, with Adele Hast, of Women Building Chicago 1790 1990: A Biographical Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2001).

Jessica Payette is an associate professor of musicology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in musicology and humanities from Stanford University in 2008. Her publications focus on fin-de-siècle Vienna and twentieth-century opera and ballet.

Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago reprints Eleanor Smith's 1916 folio of politically engaged songs, together with interdisciplinary critical commentary from sociology, history, and musicology.