Monica Toft received her Ph.D. and MA from the University of Chicago. She also went on to earn her BA in Political Science and Slavic languages and literature from the University of California in Santa Barbara. She is now an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. Her research interests include international relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, relationship between demography and national security, and military and strategic planning. She is the author of two book manuscripts: The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and Territory and The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning Under Uncertainty.