Wade E. Pickren, PhD, received his doctorate in psychology and the history of science from the University of Florida. He is a widely respected author or editor of eight books, numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has given conference presentations and invited talks on four continents. His current research interests include the history of culture, health, and resilience and the history of race, ethnicity, and gender in American psychology. Dr. Pickren served as the historian of APA from 1998–2012 and as the editor of History of Psychology from 2010–2015. He has served as president of the Society for General Psychology and the Society for the History of Psychology. Dr. Pickren is a fellow of four APA Divisions.

Alexandra Rutherford, PhD, is a professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her work focuses on the history of feminist–scholar activism in psychology and its impact on society. She is the founder and director of the Psychology's Feminist Voices Oral History and Digital Archive Project, which documents, preserves, and promotes the contributions of women and feminism in psychology. She is a fellow of APA and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). In 2012 she won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) for her coedited volume Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights. She has won feminist mentoring awards from CPA and AWP. Dr. Rutherford has coauthored two textbooks on the history of psychology, is an associate editor of the APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women, and is the advising editor for psychology for the Oxford University Press publication American National Biography. In 2013, she served as president of the Society for the History of Psychology and is currently a member of the advisory board of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology.