Carol McMichael Reese is the Christovich Associate Professor in the Tulane School of Architecture, where she teaches architectural/urban history and theory courses. Her books and articles focus on contemporary architecture and urban planning in the Americas. In 2013, she published The Panama Canal and its Architectural Legacy, 1905-1920 . Her most recent book is New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning . She has served on the Board of Directors of Longue Vue House and Gardens since 2004. Thaisa Way is a landscape historian teaching history, theory, and design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of WA. She has published and lectured on feminist histories of landscape architecture. Her book, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture , and Early Twentieth-Century Design , was supported by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and the Landscape Studies Foundation's David Coffin Award.

Her forthcoming book, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haa g, explores the narrative of postindustrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture. s Architecture Foundation and the Landscape Studies Foundation's David Coffin Award. Her forthcoming book, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haa g, explores the narrative of postindustrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture.s Architecture Foundation and the Landscape Studies Foundation's David Coffin Award. Her forthcoming book, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haa g, explores the narrative of postindustrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture.s Architecture Foundation and the Landscape Studies Foundation's David Coffin Award. Her forthcoming book, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haa g, explores the narrative of postindustrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture.