Drew Gilpin Faust became dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on January 1, 2001. On February 11, 2007, she was named the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University, effective July 1, 2007. Faust also holds an appointment as the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Before coming to Radcliffe, Faust was Annenberg Professor of History and director of the women's studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. Faust is a historian of the Civil War and the American South. She is the author of five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Her most recent scholarship, studying the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans, will be published in 2008 as This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, the Society of American Historians in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004.

Susan Zeiger is an associate professor of history at Regis College. She holds a BA in American Studies from Yale University and a PhD in United States history from New York University. Zeiger specializes in the history of women, the social and political history of the 20th century, social movements, World War I, the Vietnam War, and the study of gender, war, and peace. She is the acclaimed author of In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (Cornell University Press, 1999) and an article about the African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux for the on-line journal Clio's Eye (February, 2000).

Louise Richardson is the executive dean at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, a senior lecturer of government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School. Richardson received a bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College, Dublin. She received her master's degrees in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard and in history from Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a doctoral degree in government from Harvard University. She is acknowledged as one of the world's leading authorities on terrorism and security issues, and is the editor of the State University of New York's series Trajectories of Terrorist Violence. She is also the author of What Terrorists Want (Random House, 2006), When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations in the Suez and Falkland Crises (St. Martin's Press, 1996), and co-author of Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (United States Institute of Peace, 2005).

Nancy F. Cott is the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. Cott received her bachelor's degree from Cornell and her doctorate from Brandeis. Cott has written extensively; her books include Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2000), A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard through Her Letters (Yale University Press, 1991), The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale University Press, 1987), and The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (Yale University Press, 1977).

Kathryn Allamong Jacob is the Johanna-Maria Frænkel Curator of Manuscripts at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Her responsibilities include identifying and pursuing papers and records for acquisition. Prior to joining the Schlesinger staff in 1996, Jacob was university archivist at Johns Hopkins University, the assistant historian of the United States Senate, archivist at the National Archives, program director for documentary editions at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and deputy director of the American Jewish Historical Society. A social and cultural historian, Jacob graduated from Goucher College and earned her MA from Georgetown University and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She has written on the Lizzie Borden ax murders and the first sex survey of American women for American Heritage magazine. She is the author of two books on Washington history: Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C. After the Civil War (Smithsonian Press, 1995) and Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Jacob has also written for Smithsonian Magazine on sculptor Vinnie Ream and the "King of the Lobby," Sam Ward, who is the subject of her next book.

Marilyn Dunn is the executive director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Radcliffe Institute librarian. She earlier worked as a college librarian and director of information resources at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. She was the editor of the Women's Studies Section Newsletter from 1998 to 2000 and coedited a special issue of Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics. Dunn received her bachelor's degree in English literature at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., and her master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College in Boston. She later earned an additional master's degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Marylène Altieri is the curator of books and printed materials at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Altieri received her bachelor's degree in medieval and modern European history at the University of York, England, and a master's in history from Harvard University. She later earned a master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College.