Professor Robert Art, director of Seminar XXI, an MIT executive education program for senior members of the national security community, is a senior advisor to the MIT Security Studies Program and teaches international relations at Brandeis University.

His areas of expertise include U.S. foreign policy, international security, coercive diplomacy, democracy and counterterrorism, and U.S. grand strategy.

Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from 1861 to 1945.

He graduated from Harvard College and competed his PhD at Columbia University in 2002. He has held fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Carnegie Scholars Program, and the Social Science Research Council. At MIT, he teaches courses in political and legal history, cultural history, and the history of race, gender and class.

Capozzola's research interests are in the history of war and politics in everyday life. His first book, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen was published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2008. The book examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I, through explorations of military conscription and conscientious objection, homefront voluntarism, regulation of enemy aliens, and the emergence of civil liberties movements.

An article based on his research won the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award of the Organization of American Historians and the Biennial Article Prize of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. A new project brings together his interests in citizenship, the military and migration. Following the Flag: Soldiers, Citizens, and the Philippines is a transnational history of American soldiers in the Philippines and Filipino soldiers in the U.S. military from 1898 to the war in Iraq. Based on government records, court cases, and oral histories, Following the Flag combines social and political history to explore the history of migration, military institutions, and U.S. foreign relations.

Owen Cote Jr. is associate director of the MIT Security Studies Program. His expertise is in U.S. defense policy and international security. He has written often about the U.S. Navy (doctrine and capabilities), WMDs (what they are and are not) and nuclear weapons.

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.

Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist is an assistant professor in the Program on Science, Technology and Society.

Her recent films include Locomotion in Water (2005), about the history of chronophotographic practice in science, and Secondhand (Pepe) (2007), co-directed with CMS-alum Vanessa Bertozzi, an exploration of textile recycling, diaspora cultures and cross-cultural history which recently screened all over Haiti, and at MOMA.

Shell’s multimedia installations, based on her camouflage work, have been exhibited in Boston and Los Angeles. Her latest film BLIND is in final post-production.

Shell received an MA in American Studies from Yale University in 2002, and a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard in 2007. For her PhD, she focused on the history of camouflage in the 19th and 20th centuries, at the intersection of the histories of biology, military strategy, technology and film media practice. She was elected as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2007, where she was in residence in 2008-2009, and will return in 2010-2011.

Shell’s book Hide and Seek: Camouflage and the Media of Reconnaissance, will appear from Zone Books in Spring 2010. Shell edited a reprint of W.T. Hornaday’s Extermination of the American Bison (Smithsonian Press, 2002 [1889]), and has published widely on natural history preservation and display practices, the history of ecology, experimental film history, and renaissance history of geology and art.

Cindy Williams is a principal research scientist in the MIT Security Studies Program.

She has written extensively about the U.S. defense budget and U.S. and European military personnel policies, and has argued against a reinstatement of the draft. She is a former Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office (National Security Division).