Marian Moffett (1949-2004) was a professor of Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her major research concentrations were in the architectural history of vernacular buildings in East Tennessee, such as barns and churches, and also the architecture of TVA dams, bridges, and steam plants. Moffett received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina in 1971 and her master's (1973) and doctoral degrees (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She began working at the University of Tennessee in 1975. Moffett coauthored two books with Lawrence Wodehouse, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, and also Built for the People of the United States: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture.

Lawrence Wodehouse was an Architecture professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1979 to 1993. Wodehouse worked as a professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York before coming to UT. Wodehouse received his master's degree from Cornell in 1963 and his PhD from St. Andrews University in 1980. His major research concentrations were 19th and 20th-century architecture and also the vernacular architecture of East Tennessee. He co-authored two books with Marian Moffett, The Cantilever Barn in East Tennessee, and also Built for the People of the United States: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture. Lawrence Wodehouse retired in the Spring of 1993.