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Linda Grant De Pauw is the founder and president of the MINERVA Center. A pioneer in women's history and specialist in the American Revolutionary period, Dr. De Pauw is the author of numerous books including Battlecries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present.

Jennifer Mathers specialises in Russian security policy, including women in the Russian armed forces. She is a member of the executive committee of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies, and the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Europe-Asia Studies. She edits H-Minerva, the email discussion group affiliated with the Minerva Center.

Reina Pennington is a military historian who specialises in Russian military history and gender in military history. A former intelligence officer with the US Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency, she has published extensively in such journals as Air Force Magazine, Airpower Journal and Journal of Slavic Military Studies. She is the author of Wings, Women and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat and editor of Military Women Worldwide: A Biographical Dictionary.

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe specialises in the international history of the Cold War as well as contemporary security issues and has published extensively on the role of women in militaries. She is currently chair of the British International Studies Association, edits the journal Civil Wars and serves on the editorial boards of several journals and book series.

Lance Janda is an associate professor of history at Cameron University specializing in American military women and post-1945 United States history. He is the author of Stronger than Custom: West Point and the Admission of Women, and served for several years as the book review editor for H-Minerva.