Ed Folsom, project co-director, is the Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa. He has served as Editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review since 1983. He directed "Walt Whitman: The Centennial Project," with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Iowa Humanities Board. He is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (U Iowa P, 1994); co-editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Holy Cow!, 1981, rev.ed., 1997); co-editor of Walt Whitman and the World (U Iowa P, 1996); and author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge UP, 1994). He recently co-authored with Kenneth Price Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005). The Whitman Archive activities at the University of Iowa are housed at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Kenneth M. Price, project co-director, is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-editor of books on James Weldon Johnson, George Santayana, and nineteenth-century periodical literature. He is also the co-editor of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman (Kent State UP, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1996); and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale UP, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (U of North Carolina P, 2004). He recently co-authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).

Brett Barney, project manager and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, is Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He co-edited Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895 (Facts on File, 2007) and is currently editing a comprehensive collection of Whitman interviews and recollections.

Susan Belasco is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the editor of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller (Illinois 1991); with Larry J. Reynolds, "These Sad but Glorious Days": Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller (Yale 1991); with Kenneth M. Price, she is the co-editor of Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Virginia 1995), a collection of essays on the development of the literary marketplace; she is the editor of Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern (Penguin 1996). Her collection of essays, Approaches to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin, coedited with Elizabeth Ammons, was published by MLA in 2000. For the Whitman Archive she is editing Whitman's poetry appearing in periodicals.

Katherine L. Walter is chair of the Digital Initiatives & Special Collections (DISC) department in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, and co-directs UNL's Digital Research in the Humanities initiative with Kenneth M. Price. Walter is co-principal investigator of the Virtual Archive of Walt Whitman's Manuscripts project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She also co-directs The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition online edition, a joint project of the UNL Libraries and the University of Nebraska Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs. In addition, Walter serves as a faculty fellow of the International Willa Cather Seminar.

Zach Bajaber is the Digital Resources Designer for the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. He has experience with many encoding standards and programming and query languages (mainly XSLT, XQUERY, PHP and SQL). In addition to his involvement in the implementation stage of development, Bajaber also advises on technical and workflow matters. Projects he has contributed to include The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online, The Walt Whitman Archive, and Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923.

Stacey Berry is a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature and first-year composition. She works as an assistant editor for the Whitman Archive encoding texts and writing and editing item descriptions in EAD records. Stacey also created a tool to help transcribers decipher Whitman's handwriting.

Matt Cohen, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Duke University, focuses on tool development and digital archival theory. With the assistance of a Digital Humanities Start-up grant from the NEH, he is doing work on interface development and markup approaches for Whitman's marginalia. In addition, he is currently working as the editor in charge of adding Horace Traubel's nine-volume With Walt Whitman in Camden to the Whitman Archive. With Rachel Price, he edited and introduced the Archive's digital version of Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 selection from Leaves of Grass, the first book-length translation of Leaves into Spanish.

Andy Jewell is a contributing editor of Walt Whitman's poetry manuscripts and works on the creation of EAD finding guides for Whitman materials. He received his Ph.D. in American literature and is Assistant Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.

Elizabeth Lorang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and literature in periodicals. Her work for the Archive has largely centered on developing the portion of the site devoted to Whitman's poetry in periodicals.

Matt Miller is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. In the fall, he will be joining Yeshiva University as an Assistant Professor. He has helped create the Archive's searchable database of bibliographic citations and its database of images of Whitman. Other projects include work encoding Whitman's notebooks and training others to do so at the University of Iowa.

Wesley Raabe is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. He is developing a prototype web site and information architecture for the project Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation.

Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is interested in twentieth century women's literature. She is currently serving as editorial assistant for the upcoming A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Electronic Edition.

Vanessa Steinroetter is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and she is especially interested in transnational and interdisciplinary approaches. As an editorial assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive, she has encoded and prepared many of the contemporary reviews of Whitman's work for electronic publication, and is currently working on making Hans Reisiger's German translation of Whitman's poetry and prose available on the Archive website.

Brian Pytlik Zillig is Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among other various contributions to the Archive, he has done much of the work to display our XML-encoded texts using XSLT stylesheets.