Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science and former chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he also directed the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. As an undergraduate at Harvard he worked as a student intern at Randall Forsberg’s Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, collecting data on Soviet military capabilities in the years after World War II. He wrote his honors thesis on that topic under Forsberg’s supervision while she was a graduate student at MIT and revised it as his first academic publication for the journal International Security. He has since published five single-authored books, seven edited or co-edited volumes, and more than one hundred articles.
Neta C. Crawford is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University. As an undergraduate at Brown, she worked as an intern and then a staff member for the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in the early and mid 1980s, first as a member of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, then on the World Weapon Database project, for which she authored her first book, Soviet Military Aircraft, published in 1987. She contributed to the Arms Control Reporter, also published by IDDS, for a number of years while she was in graduate school at MIT.