Adam Berinsky is an assistant professor of political science and studies the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Berinsky has also studied the continuing power of ethnic stereotypes, the effect of voting reforms and the power of the media.

He is the author of the book Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America.

JoAnn Carmin is associate professor of environmental policy and planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her research focuses on the ways in which cities and communities are preparing for the impacts of climate change.

Carmin has published extensively on research she has conducted in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. She serves on multiple editorial boards, works with numerous international organizations, and is a lead author for the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Fotini Christia is assistant professor of political science and member of the Security Studies Program at MIT. Her area of expertise are in issues of ethnic conflict and civil wars. She completed a dissertation on civil war alliance formation, which involved extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Bosnia.

She has published work on the role of local elites in civil wars in Comparative Politics, and has written opinion pieces on her experiences from Afghanistan, Iran, the West Bank and Gaza, and Uzbekistan for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

Admiral William J. Fallon, the former commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command, is the 2008-2009 Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies. Admiral Fallon led U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), one of five geographic joint military commands of the U.S. armed forces, each headed by a senior four-star general or admiral, from March 2007 to March 2008.

During his tenure as CENTCOM commander, he was responsible for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and directed all U.S. military activities in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa. Admiral Fallon recently retired from the military after 41 years of distinguished service to the nation.

Melissa Nobles is associate professor of political science. Professor Nobles is an expert in the comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, and issues of retrospective justice.

Her book, The Politics of Official Apologies, (Cambridge University Press, 2008), comparatively examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Nobles has also been a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study (2003-04).

Kenneth A. Oye is associate professor of political science at MIT. He served two terms as director of the MIT Center for International Studies (1992-2000), and is now forming a Political Economy and Technology Policy Program within the center.

He has published six books, including Cooperation Under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange and Eagle in a New World, and numerous shorter pieces in international relations, political economy, and science and technology policy.

Roger Petersen is an associate professor of political science and an expert in comparative politics with a special focus on conflict and violence.

He has written two books: Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He also studies war and violence in the Balkans, especially in Kosovo.

David Andrew Singer is an assistant professor of political science at MIT. Singer is an expert in international political economy, with a focus on international financial regulation, the influence of global capital flows on government policymaking, international institutions and governance, and the political economy of central banking.

He is the author of Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System (Cornell University Press, 2007). His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Stephen Van Evera teaches international relations at MIT, where he is professor of political science. He received his BA in government from Harvard and his PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

His research interests include the causes and prevention of war, U.S. foreign policy, U.S. national security policy, and social science methods. He is author of Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science (Cornell, 1997), Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell, 1999), and articles on the causes of World War I, nationalism and the war problem, American intervention in the Third World, American defense policy, and Europe's future international relations. During the 1980s he was managing editor of the journal International Security.