
Mike Findley is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at BYU. He received his PhD in Political Science in 2007 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research examines civil wars, ethnic conflict, and terrorism.

Darren Hawkins is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he is currently the department chair. He teaches and researches on international relations and especially international organizations. He has coedited a volume with Cambridge University Press, Delegation and Agency in International Organizations, and published a book with Nebraska University Press, International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile. He has also published a number of scholarly articles on international human rights, international institutions, and democracy. These have appeared in International Organization, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Global Governance, Review of International Studies, and other journals. He enjoys hiking, backpacking, camping, golf, basketball, gardening, reading, beating his colleagues in fantasy sports, and lots of other wonderful non-academic things.

Daniel Nielson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. His research interests include agency theory, multilateral development banks, social and environmental assistance, and comparative politics, particularly in Latin America. Dan is an avid runner and cyclist.

Sven Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University.