Leda Cempellin (Research Doctor, Università degli studi di Parma) is a Professor of Art History, Coordinator of Museum Studies minor, and current Associate Director of the School of Design at South Dakota State University. She published The Ideas, Identity and Art of Daniel Spoerri with Vernon Press (2017).

Pat Crawford is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Director of the School of Design at South Dakota State University. She earned her Master's in Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University and her PhD in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University. She co-authored several APLU reports on employability skills for the series From Academia to the Workforce.