Executive Committee
The Triangle Institute for Security Studies is run by a seven-person board, led by a Director. Current members (Academic Year 2008-2009) are Peter Feaver (Director), a political scientist at Duke University; Alex Roland, a military historian at Duke University; William A. Boettcher, a political scientist at North Carolina State University and Nancy Mitchell, a diplomatic historian at North Carolina State University; Karen Hagemann, a historian at UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Mark Crescenzi, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jeffrey Elliot, a political scientist at North Carolina Central University.
Past Members: Roster.
Biographies
William A. Boettcher III is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the management of risk in foreign policy decision making and the framing of casualty data. He has published articles in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Political Psychology and is the author of a recent book-- Presidential Risk Behavior in Foreign Policy: Prudence or Peril.
Mark J.C. Crescenzi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of California at Irvine in 1993 and both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and 2000.He teaches courses in International Relations, including Introductory International Relations, International Conflict Processes and National Security and Defense Policy. His research interests line in the relationship between conflict and democracy and conflict and international economic interdependence, and in theories of reputation, history, and learning in world politics. Besides his numerous articles, Professor Crescenzi has authored a book, published in 2005 with Lexington Books, on the subject of economic interdependence and conflict.
Jeffrey M. Elliot, (Doctor of Arts, Claremont College) is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department at North Carolina Central University. He is an award winning scholar and a specialist in American politics and government, international relations and foreign policy, civil rights and civil liberties, and political economy and global development. He has authored over 100 books and 550 articles, reviews, and interviews. He has interviewed over 350 nationally and internationally known figures, including former President Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Mobutu Sese Seko, Yasir Arafat, King Hussein, Desmond Tutu, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, George C. Wallace, Linus Pauling, Cesar Chavez, Alex Haley, Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, and Maya Angelou.
Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is Professor of Political Science at Duke University Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) since 1998. Feaver is author of Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (Harvard Press, 2003),and co-author, with Christopher Gelpi, of Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force ( Princeton University Press, forthcoming). He is co-editor, with Richard H. Kohn, of Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (MIT Press, 2001). And he is author of Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He has published several other monographs and over thirty articles and book chapters on nuclear proliferation, civil-military relations, information warfare, and U.S. national security. He has also been active in public life. Early in his career, he also was Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council where his responsibilities included counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, the national security strategy review, and other defense policy issues. He has just returned from two years service as a special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council.
Karen Hagemann joined the UNC-CH faculty in July 2005. Her research in Modern German and European history and Women's and Gender history (18th to 20th centuries) includes studies in the fields of social and population policy, labor history, family history and the history of everyday lives, as well as the history of the women's movement. The more recent research focuses on a gendered history of military, war and the nation, the history of masculinity and citizenship, and on a comparative gender history of post-1945 welfare and education systems. She is currently directing two international research projects: first, the transnational project "Nation, Borders and Identities: European Experiences and Memories of the Period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars" (funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Board and the German Research Foundation), and second, the interdisciplinary project "The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg? The 'Time Politics' of Public Education in Post-war Europe: An East-West Comparison" (funded by the German Volkswagen Foundation). Her most recent book publications are: Masculinity in Politics and War. Gendering Modern History (ed. with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh, 2004); Frieden - Gewalt - Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung (ed. with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, 2005); Militärische Erinnerungskultur. Soldaten im Spiegel von Biographien, Memoiren and Selbstzeugnissen (ed. with Michael Epkenhans and Stig Förster, 2006).
Nancy Mitchell (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is Associate Professor in the History Department at North Carolina State University. She also holds degrees from the University of Hull (Ecumenical Theology) and New College (History of Religion) and prior to joining the faculty at North Carolina State University lectured at Trinity College, Dublin and Rhodes College, Memphis. Her publications include The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America, 1895-1914 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999) and a book, Race and Realpolitik: Jimmy Carter and Africa, is forthcoming. As Director of Graduate Programs, Professor Mitchell has been active reforming the program, recruiting students for State’s Master’s Program, and organizing a Graduate Student Conference.
Alex Roland (Ph.D., Duke University) is Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History at Duke University. He served in the United States Marine Corps between 1966 -1970. Between 1973 and 1981 he was the Historian at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and from 1988-1989 he was a Professor of Military History at the Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College. Dr. Roland’s research and writing focus on military history and the history of technology. His current research and writing are in the fields of aviation, astronautics, computers, weapons, and the relationship between war and technology. Other recent publications include Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (2002); The Military-industrial Complex (2001); (edited with Peter Galison) Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (2001); and the introduction to the 2000 edition of Theodore Ropp’s War in the Modern World .
