Drew Faust is dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Lincoln Professor of History 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. She is currently working on a study of the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans. 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.

Jennifer Leaning is the senior advisor in international and policy studies at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a professor of the practice of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She directs the Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights in the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and is an attending physician in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research and policy interests include problems of international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in disasters and emergencies. These interests have taken her around the world - to Afghanistan, Albania, Congo, the Chad/Sudan border, Ethiopia, Gaza Kosovo, Mogadishu, Rwanda, the USSR, and the West Bank. She has written and lectured extensively on her experiences and has testified before Congress. In addition, she serves on the board of directors of several organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights (where she was a founding board member), the Humane Society of the United States, and the Massachusetts Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross. She chairs the Harvard University Student Health Coordinating Board and is a visiting editor of the British Medical Journal.

Elizabeth Lutes Hillman is an associate professor of law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. She holds a JD and a PhD from Yale University. A veteran of the United States Armed Forces, she previously taught history at the United States Air Force Academy and Yale University and is active in efforts to improve the administration of military justice. She studies military crime and discipline, the impact of sexual orientation discrimination on legal outcomes, and the status and treatment of women in the US military. Her new book, Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial (Princeton University Press, 2005), analyzes prosecutions for military crimes such as going AWOL, marrying without permission, collaborating with communists, and being gay or lesbian.

Simon Wessely is a professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; a consultant psychiatrist at King's and Maudsley hospitals, and director of the King's Center for Military Health Research Unit at King's College London. His main research interests are in the grey areas between medicine and psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, and military health. He has published more than 400 papers on many subjects, including epidemiology, post-traumatic stress, medicine and law, the history of psychiatry, chronic pain, somatization, Gulf War illness, chronic fatigue syndrome, chemical and biological terrorism, and deliberate self-harm. He is currently running a study on the health of 20,000 UK military personnel who took part in the invasion of Iraq. Wessely is a consultant advisor in psychiatry to the British Army.

Leo Braudy is the Bing Professor of English and University Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches 17th- and 18th-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He is the author of seven books, including From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (Knopf, 2003; Vintage, 2004) and The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (Oxford, 1986; Vintage, 1997). With Marshall Cohen, he coedited Film Theory and Criticism (Oxford University Press, 6th edition, 2004). Braudy has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. He has directed NEH Summer Seminars for both high school and college teachers and has served as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post Book World, the International Herald Tribune, London Sunday Express, Travel Holiday, the Times Literary Supplement, Film Quarterly, and Harper's. He frequently appears in a variety of media as a commentator on popular culture, cultural history, and films.

Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published seven books on Irish history, gender and "the body," the history of psychological thought, modern warfare, and emotions. Her books have been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Her book Fear: A Cultural History was published by Virago in February 2005. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare (Granta and Basic Books, 2000) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1998 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2000. Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War was published in 1997 by Reaktion Books and University of Chicago Press. She is currently writing a history of rapists in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His academic publications include American Exceptionalism and Human Rights (Princeton University Press, 2005); The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (Princeton University Press, 2004); Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton University Press, 2001); The Rights Revolution (House of Anansi Press, 2000); Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000); Isaiah Berlin: A Life (Owl Books, 1999); Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1983); The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1998); Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1993); and The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on the Philosophy of Human Needs (Viking, 1985). He served on the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Ignatieff holds a PhD in history from Harvard University.

Lorry M. Fenner, a colonel in the United States Air Force and the chief of intelligence force development at the Pentagon, is in her last year of service. She has served around the world in various intelligence, space, and academic assignments on staff, in operations, and in command. She has a master's degree and a PhD in history from the University of Michigan; her dissertation was titled "Ideology and Amnesia: The Public Debate on Women in the American Military, 1940 - 1973." She also has a master's degree from the National Defense University in national security strategy and a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in secondary education. From 2002 to 2003, she was a Supreme Court fellow, and from 2003 to 2004, she served on the staff of the 9/11 Commission. In 2001, she coauthored Women in Combat: Civic Duty or Military Liability?, published by Georgetown University Press.

Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1997 to 2001, she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law (Trentham Books, 1994); an edited volume, Asylum Law and Practice in Europe and North America (Federal Publications, 1992); and numerous articles. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, adoption, and citizenship.

Geraldine Brooks is a 2005 - 2006 Radcliffe Institute fellow. From 1985 to 1994, she was a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covering conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. She has written two books of nonfiction: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Anchor, 2005) and Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over (Anchor, 1999). She is also the author of the novels March (Viking, 2005), which chronicles the Civil War through the experiences of the father of the March family in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, and Year of Wonders (Penguin Books, 2002).

Gilbert Holleufer joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1987. He gained field experience in war zones in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the former Yugoslavia. In 1999, as a communication advisor to the directorate at the ICRC Headquarters, he participated in the implementation of the People on War project, a large-scale attempt to survey people in war-torn areas about their experiences and their ideas on the rules of war. During the course of this project, 20,000 people were interviewed in seventeen countries. From 2000 to 2001, he joined the Fran - ois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Human Rights in Boston as a visiting fellow to analyze the data resulting from the survey. He currently teaches literature at the Gymnasium of Vevey in Switzerland while doing further work on the People on War project data.

Lynne Jones is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the technical advisor in mental health for International Medical Corps, an international humanitarian relief organization. She is also a senior research associate at the Center for Family Research, Cambridge University, and a tutor at the International Institute for Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University. She has a PhD in social psychology and political science. Her dissertation examined the life histories of human rights and peace activists in Britain, Guatemala, and Poland. Since 1991, she has been engaged in assessing mental health needs and establishing mental health services in disaster, conflict, and post-conflict settings, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Chad, Iraq, Kosovo (where she established the province's first child psychiatry service), and West Africa. In 2001, she was awarded an Order of the British Empire for her mental health work in conflict and conflict-affected areas of central Europe. For the last six months, she has been working with tsunami- and conflict-affected communities in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, as well as in New Orleans. Her main research interest is in children's understandings of war and disaster. Her book exploring Bosnian children's understandings of war, Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia (2005), was recently published by Harvard University Press.

Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a colonel in the United States Army, holds a master's degree in public health and a medical degree. She trained at Harvard University, George Washington University, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where she is an associate professor of psychiatry. Her assignments and other missions have taken her to Iraq, Israel, Korea, Somalia, and Vietnam. She brings a unique public health approach to the management of disaster and combat mental health issues and is internationally renowned as an expert on the subject. She also has published numerous articles on forensic, disaster, and military operational psychiatry. This past year, she received the William Porter and Bruno Lima awards. Ritchie is currently the psychiatry consultant to the US Army Surgeon General. Her new book, "Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice," will appear this winter.

Alice Kaplan is the Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and a professor of literature and history at Duke University. She earned her PhD in French from Yale University in 1981. She is the author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (University of Chicago Press, 2001), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in history and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and French Lessons (University of Chicago Press, 1993). Kaplan is currently working on a translation of Madame Proust, a biography of Marcel Proust's mother by Evelyne Bloch-Dano. Kaplan's most recent book, The Interpreter (Free Press, 2005), examines the workings of US military justice in liberated France after World War II through the experience of one French interpreter, novelist Louis Guilloux.

Janet Halley is a professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches family law, discrimination, and legal theory. Before teaching there, she was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and an assistant professor of English at Hamilton College. She has a PhD in English from UCLA and a JD from Yale Law School. Her books include Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press, forthcoming); Left Legalism/Left Critique, coedited with Wendy Brown (Duke University Press, 2002); Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti- Gay Policy (Duke University Press, 1999); and Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism, coedited with Sheila Fisher (University of Tennessee Press, 1989). Her current projects include a handbook titled "What's Not to Like about Sexual Harassment Law," a paper comparing family law systems titled "Traveling Marriage," and a critique of the rules about sexual violence in war established by the ad hoc courts convened to adjudicate war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

Robin Coupland is the advisor on armed violence and the effects of weapons for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He joined the ICRC in 1987 and worked as a field surgeon in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Kenya, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand, and Yemen. His work has since focused on the health aspects of the design and use of weapons. He graduated from the Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine in the United Kingdom and trained as a surgeon at University College Hospital in London. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and has a graduate diploma in international law from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Catherine Merridale is a professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary College at the University of London. She specializes in 20th-century Russian social, political, and cultural history. Her interdisciplinary studies incorporate oral history, historical anthropology, psychiatry, and demography together with extensive research in state and personal papers. She aims to contextualize the lives of individuals with respect to the totalitarian, mass- mobilizing state. Recently she has focused on mourning, grief, and memory; violence; and the experience of the conscript soldier under fire. Among her recent publications is Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia (Granta, 2000), which won the Royal Society of Literature's W. H. Heinemann Award in 2000. Her latest book, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939 - 1945, was published by Faber in London in October 2005 and will be published by Metropolitan in New York in February 2006. Merridale has also written on political culture, language, and approaches to the writing of history.

Susan Rubin Suleiman is a 2005 - 2006 Radcliffe Institute fellow, the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on contemporary literature and culture and has also published poetry and autobiographical works. For the past few years, her work has focused on questions of personal and collective memory and history, especially regarding World War II and the Holocaust. Her new book, Crises of Memory and the Second World War, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2006. Her other books include the anthology Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary, coedited with Eva Forg - cs (University of Nebraska Press, 2003); the edited volume Exile and Creativity (Duke University Press, 1998); the memoir Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (University of Nebraska Press, 1996); Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature (Harvard University Press, 1994); Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (Harvard University Press, 1990); and Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre (Columbia University Press, 1983).

James E. Young is a professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and chairs the department of Judaic and Near Eastern studies. He is the author of At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000); The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994; and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 1988), Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At present, he is completing an account of his time on the jury of the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition, "Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror's Report on the World Trade Center Site Memorial."

Tony Horwitz is a 2005 - 2006 Radcliffe Institute fellow. From 1987 to 1993, he was a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia. His books include Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Pantheon, 1998), about the lasting impact of the American Civil War, and Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia (Plume, 1992), about the Middle East.