Terrie Dopp Aamodt is Professor of History and English at Walla Walla University.

Gary Land was Professor of History and Political Science at Andrews University.

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Medicine and of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Terrie Aamodt is professor of history and English at Walla Walla University. She studies the intersections between religious history and American culture, the topic of her book Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War (2002).

Eric Anderson is president of Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. His books include Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second (1981) and Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930 (1999), co-authored with Alfred Moss of the University of Maryland.

Jonathan M. Butler authored Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling: Heaven and Hell in American Revivalism, 1870-1920 (1991). Most of his scholarly publications, however, have focused on Millerism and Adventism, including a groundbreaking essay, "Adventism and the American Experience," in The Rise of Adventism (1974). He also co-edited (with Ronald Numbers) The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century (1987).

Ronald Graybill formerly served as an associate director at the Ellen G. White Estate and then for several years as chair of the department of history at La Sierra University. He has written numerous journal articles as well as the volumes Ellen White and Church Race Relations (1970) and Mission to Black America: The True Story of Edson White and the Riverboat Morning Star (1971).

Floyd Greenleaf is emeritus professor of history at Southern Adventist University. He is the author of The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Latin America and the Caribbean (1992), In Passion for the World: A History of Seventh-day Adventist Education (2005), and A Land of Hope: the Growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America (2011).

Fritz Guy is Research Professor of Philosophical Theology at La Sierra University, where he also served as president from 1990 to 1993. He has written or edited several books: Understanding Genesis: Contemporary Adventist Perspectives, co-edited with Brian Bull and Ervin Taylor (2006), Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, co-edited with David Ferguson and David R. Larson (2008), and God, Sky and Land: Genesis 1 as the Ancient Hebrews Heard It, co-written with Brian Bull (2011).

Bert Haloviak retired in 2010 as director of the office of archives and statistics at the Adventist world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has taught courses in Adventist history and the books of Daniel and Revelation at Washington Adventist University.

Gary Land retired in 2010 after forty years with the Andrews University Department of History and Political Science, serving as departmental chair from 1989 to 2010. He is the editor of Adventism in America: A History (1986), The World of Ellen G. White (1987), Everett N. Dick's William Miller and the Advent Crisis (1994), and Historical Dictionary of the Seventh-day Adventists (2005). He coauthored, with Calvin W. Edwards, Seeker After Light: A. F. Ballenger, Adventism, and American Christianity (2000).

Benjamin McArthur is professor of history at Southern Adventist University. He has authored two books, Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 (1984) and The Man who was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre (2007).

Paul McGraw is professor of history at Pacific Union College. He specializes in American religious history with a specific focus on Adventist history and the development of the designation "cult."

Jerry Moon is professor and chair of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University. His dissertation was was published as W. C. White and Ellen G. White: The Relationship Between the Prophet and Her Son (1993).

Douglas Morgan is professor of history and political studies at Washington Adventist University. He is the author of Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement (2001) and Lewis C. Sheafe: Apostle to Black America (2010).

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for the past four decades. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (3rd ed., 2008), The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (expanded edition, 2008), and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (2008).

Arthur Nelson Patrick was an honorary senior research fellow at Avondale College of Higher Education in Australia and was director of the Ellen G. White/SDA Research Centre for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists from 1976 to 1983.

Rennie B. Schoepflin is associate dean and professor of history in the College of Natural and Social Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles. His publications include Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (2003) and numerous articles on the history of science and religion and on Adventist studies.

Graeme Sharrock holds graduate degrees from Andrews University and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. His chapter in this volume condenses portions of an extensive research project on the development of Ellen White's "testimonies" for his forthcoming University of Chicago Ph.D. dissertation.

Ann Taves is professor of religious studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and past president of the American Academy of Religion. Her most recent books include Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things (2009) and Fits, Trances and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (1999).

Laura Vance teaches sociology and is the director of the gender and women's studies program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She is the author of several articles on the topic and of Seventh-day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an Emerging Religion (1999).

Gilbert Valentine is chair and professor of educational leadership at La Sierra University. He has written several books on Adventist history, including W. W. Prescott: Forgotten Giant of Adventism's Second Generation; The Struggle for the Prophetic Heritage: Issues in the Conflict for Control of the Ellen G. White Publications 1930-1939 (2006); and 'The Prophet and the Presidents: Ellen G. White and the Processes of Change, 1887-1913: a Study of Ellen Whites Influence on the Administrative Leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (2011).

Grant Wacker is professor of Christian history at Duke University. He has co-edited or authored six books, including the award-winning Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (2001), and numerous articles in academic journals and popular magazines. Wacker is working on a cultural biography of the Protestant evangelist Billy Graham, titled Billy Graham and the Shaping of Modern America.

T. Joe Willey conducted research on the brain and taught neuroscience at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. In 2009 his book A Beast in the Garden: Who were the Confused Races of Man Created by Amalgamation of Man and Beast was published. Now retired, he contributes articles to Adventist Today on Adventism in the nineteenth century.

"This edited volume provides definitive treatments and a full portrait of Ellen Harmon White... This book should be read by all scholars of religions in America, new religious movements, and women and gender in religions in America."--Journal of American History

"An engrossing study of an era, a church, and an indomitable woman."--Books & Culture

"[D]eeply researched, fluidly written, and imaginatively argued."--Christian Century

"[Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet]'s existence and form--published by a leading academic press, written largely by well-trained scholars with Adventist connections, drawing the attention and even participation of American historians of various orientations and considerable renown--is an important as anything the book contains. And it contains a lot. As an accessible treatment of White's history on an array of topics, this volume is simply incomparable." --David Holland, Spectrum

"This work...will stimulate further conversations about Ellen White's legacy and role within Adventism and I am grateful that scholars outside the Adventist tradition are now willing to look at Ellen White and her contributions to American religious history." --Denis Fortin, Spectrum

"This particular volume demonstrates that [Ellen Harmon White] deserves more recognition and formal study by scholars... The tapestry of essays-with hues that provide historical, social, economic, and political dimensions-locates and describes how Ellen G. White fits into this broad landscape." --Biblical Research Institute

"Ellen G. Harmon White finally makes it to Oxford University...This book can help readers put the writings of Ellen White in their proper balance and context...[Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet] will also put Ellen White "on the map" of non-Adventist scholarship and culture. In the long run, the book may do more to bring her to the attention of the wider world." --Ministry

"This...volume demonstrates that [White] deserves more recognition and formal study by scholars."--Adventist Review

"An ingenious interconnected series of biographical studies, this collection effectively brings Ellen Harmon White, the seer of the Seventh-day Adventist tradition, into the thick of American religious and cultural history. As a collaborative venture, it is superbly orchestrated: it demonstrates White's profound relevance to any number of historiographies-on gender and race, on medicine and education, on visionary experience and practical theology, on missions and globalization." --Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

"...[An] impressive volume... Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet is an important contribution to understanding a prosperous major indigenous faith and its sometimes controversial founder... Scholars of American religion, as well as of the social and cultural history of the nation, inquiring members of the SDA Church, and many lay readers will profit from reading this volume. This reviewer significantly expanded his religious education." --Nova religio

"It is a work that demands serious attention, and the authors and editors are to be commended for their diligence and effort."-- Kevin Burton, Andrews University Seminary Studies

"This collection of essays offers fresh thinking about Ellen Harmon White and points toward the need for a scholarly biography of her life and work. It helps historians understand Ellen Harmon White in the context of her time and appreciate her significance in American religious history." --Church History