Richard M. Cornelius is the Bryan/Scopes Liaison and Archivist at Bryan College, a Professor Emeritus of English, and the Chairman of the Scopes Trial Museum Committee. In addition to writing, editing, and designing some 30 articles, books, recordings, and exhibits about the Scopes Trial or W. J. Bryan, he has served as a consultant to numerous television programs, historical museums, and writers working on Bryan/Scopes projects. He holds a B.A. from Bryan College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Joseph W. Francis is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA. He has published many technical articles in microbiology. After earning a Ph.D. in microbiology from Wayne State University, he served as a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist at the University of Michigan Medical School and taught at Cedarville University.

William L. Ketchersid is a Professor of History at Bryan College and a native of Rhea County. As a specialist in the era leading up to the Scopes Trial, he has recently published The Gilded Age Presidency Reconsidered. He holds a B.A. from Tennessee Wesleyan College, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

Edward J. Larson holds the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and is the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia. In addition to publishing Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, which was awarded the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history, he has authored over 65 books and articles, including such publications as Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution, Evolution: A History of the Theory, Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands, The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History (with Edward Caudill). He received his B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin.

David L. Llewellyn, Jr. is a practicing attorney in California, has been a Dean and a Professor of Law at Trinity Law School, an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law, and an Assistant Professor of English at Bryan College. His legal publications, over 300 syndicated newspaper columns, and participation in numerous panels and forums reflect his interests in civil rights, religious liberty, public policy, and international human rights. He received a B.A. from Bryan College, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a J.D. from UCLA.

James W. McKenzie is the first Rhea County Family Court Judge and has jurisdiction in the areas of Domestic Relations, Juvenile Court, General Sessions, and Civil and Criminal cases. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin G. McKenzie, was the first Attorney General in the 18th Judicial District and participated in the Scopes Trial, and his uncle, J. Gordon McKenzie, was a Rhea County judge and a member of the prosecution in the Scopes Trial. Judge James McKenzie has played the role of his grandfather, B. G. McKenzie, in the annual dramatic reenactment of the Trial during the Scopes Trial Festival.

Randy Moore is a Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota. He has been the editor of The American Biology Teacher and is on the editorial board for the Journal of College Science Teaching and the Journal of Biological Education. The National Association of Biology Teachers published his book In the Light of Evolution: Science Education on Trial, and The American Biology Teacher journal published a series of 13 articles on the creation/evolution issue that Dr. Moore wrote. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from U.C.L.A.

Ronald L. Numbers is the Hillsdale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and Chairman of the Department of the History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He is a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. His many publications include Darwinism Comes to America, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism, and he monumental Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science from the U. of California at Berkeley.

Carl A. Pierce is the W. Allen Separk Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he has been teaching American legal history since 1972, including in recent years a course that focuses on the Scopes trial. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University and is licensed to practice law in Tennessee.

Lawrence H. Puckett is Circuit Court Judge for the 10th Judicial District of Tennessee (Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, and Polk Counties). His interest in the Scopes Trial has been developed by his associations with Bryan College: first as a student, then a graduate, a president of the Alumni Association, and a trustee. He received the J.D. degree from the U. of Memphis.

Glenn M. Sanford is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University, where he has directed the honors program and taught courses in the Philosophy of Biology and the Philosophy of Science. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation at Duke University was “Explaining Evolution: Genes, Culture, Environment, and Mechanisms.”

Harold Ray Stevens is a Professor Emeritus of English at McDaniel College, a past president of the H. L. Mencken Society, and a trustee and founding member of the Joseph Conrad Society. In addition to publishing essays on Mencken, he has published numerous essays and contributed to books on some books on Byron, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy, O’Neill, Woolf, and the Bible. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kurt P. Wise is an Associate Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College. In addition to his teaching on campus, a busy schedule of speaking engagements off campus, and publishing articles, videos, and books, he spends a significant amount of time in the field doing scientific research at such locales as Death Valley, caves, and dinosaur sites. At Harvard, where he earned his M.A. in geology and his Ph.D. in invertebrate paleontology, he studied under Stephen Jay Gould.