Mary Corbin Sies teaches in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, is acting director of the graduate program in historic preservation, and an affiliate of the women's studies faculty. Christopher Silver is currently researching urban planning history in Indonesia and serves as urban policy advisor to the Indonesian National Planning Agency. He is the author of Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race and The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968.