Nao Nomura, a native of Tokyo, Japan, is the Collections Manager at the In­ternational Quilt Study Center (IQSC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and serves as Technical Analyst for the IQSC's cataloging project. She holds a BA in American Studies from Keisen University in Tokyo and an MA in Textile History, with an emphasis on Quilt Studies and Museum Studies, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nomura has long been interested in studying American culture and history through textiles and quilts, and in 2001 she came to the United States to pursue her academic interests. She recently curated the IQSC exhibition Indigo Gives America the Blues (2003) and presented her re­search on exotic animal motifs used in American quilts at the IQSC symposium Wild by Design. Her scholarly work also includes the use of technical analysis in investigating undocumented quilts.

Janneken Smucker is a PhD student in the History of American Civilization program at the University of Delaware. She holds an MA in Textile History/Quilt Studies with a minor in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lin­coln. She is the co-author of Amish Crib Quilts from the Midwest: 1he Sara Miller Collection (2002) and curator of the International Quilt Study Center's traveling exhibit At the Crossing: Midwestern Amish Crib Quilts and the Intersection of Cultures. She continues to investigate the cultural significance of quilts and other forms of material culture as part of her doctoral studies. In part, her research is a result of generous funding from the Robert and Ardis James Foundation, which Smucker received to conduct research on Amish quilts in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncovering volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2006, Volume 27, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/34/.