VALERIE M. HUDSON is University Distinguished Professor and holder of the George H. W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson’s articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, the American Political Science Review, Population and Development Review, the Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, and Foreign Policy Analysis, as well as policy journals such as Foreign Policy and Politico. She is the author or editor of several books, including (with Andrea Den Boer) Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population (MIT Press, 2004), which won the American Association of Publishers Award for the Best Book in Political Science, and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Best Book in Social Demography, resulting in feature stories in the New York Times, The Economist, 60 Minutes, and other news publications. Hudson was named in the list of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2009, and in 2015 was recognized as Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA/ISA) and awarded the inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellowship as well as the inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Australian National University (2017). Winner of numerous teaching awards and recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant and a Minerva Initiative grant, she served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies for eight years, and served as Vice President of the International Studies Association for 2011–2012. Hudson is one of the Principal Investigators of The WomanStats Project (http://womanstats.org), which includes the largest compilation of data on the status of women in the world today. She is also a founding editorial board member of Foreign Policy Analysis, and a current or former editorial board member of the American Journal of Political Science, Politics and Gender, the American Political Science Review, and the International Studies Review, has testified three times before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, assisted the National Intelligence Council in preparing its 2017 Global Trends: Paradox of Progress report, and served as a member of the Expert Group on the Data 2X Initiative. Her book Sex and World Peace, co-authored with Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad Emmett, and published by Columbia University Press, was listed by Gloria Steinem in 2014 as one of the top three books on her “Reading Our Way to the Revolution” list. Hudson’s most recent book with Patricia Leidl, also from Columbia University Press, is titled The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy (2015). Her latest coauthored book project is The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide, forthcoming in 2020 with Columbia University Press.
BENJAMIN S. DAY is associate lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University, where he leads the Department’s postgraduate teaching of Foreign Policy Analysis and Australian Foreign Policy. His current research focuses on understanding the decisionmaking dynamics that operates in the foreign aid issue area. Prior to academia, Ben worked in the international development sector for a decade as an aid worker, a consultant, and a program manager.