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J.D. Bowers (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003), co-chief editor, is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University where he teaches the history of religion, genocide and human rights, and the US in the World. He is the author of Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America (Penn State, 2007) and numerous other articles and encyclopedia entries and serves on the editorial board of Pennsylvania History. In 2008 he delivered the inaugural Conrad Wright Lecture, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. He is currently working on a history of the religious influence on the conception and development of American human rights policy.
Peter Hughes (D.Min, Meadville/Lombard, 1986), co-chief editor, is a Unitarian Universalist minister, retired from parish ministry due to disability, and now researches and writes about early New England Universalist history. Several of his articles--on the origin of New England Universalism, the Restorationist controversy, and local church history--are published in the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History and the Unitarian Universalist Christian. He has prepared numerous short biographies in the course of research for a projected book on Adin Ballou.
Jim Nugent (Southern Illinois University), is a retired Unitarian Universalist communications/media specialist living in Park Forest, Illinois.
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