John T. Ishiyama (PhD, Michigan State University) is professor of political science at the University of North Texas. His teaching interests include comparative political development, democratization and political parties, and political methodology. His research interests include democratization and political parties in post-Communist Russian, European, Eurasian, and African (especially Ethiopian) politics; ethnic conflict and ethnic politics; and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He is the author or editor of four books and author or coauthor of more than 100 journal articles (in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, Party Politics, and others) and book chapters on democratization, party politics, ethnic politics, and post-Communist Russian, European, and African politics. He has also written widely on curriculum development, educational opportunity, and educational assessment in political science. In addition, he is a research fellow at the University of Kansas's Center for Russian and East European Studies. Currently, he serves as editor-in-chief (and was founding editor) of the Journal of Political Science Education, the journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Political Science Education (formerly the Undergraduate Education) section. He was also a member of the APSA Executive Council (2007–2009). He is currently an executive board member of the Midwest Political Science Association (2010–2013) and a member of the executive board of Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honorary society) from 2008 to 2012.

Marijke Breuning (PhD, The Ohio State University) is professor of political science at the University of North Texas. Her teaching interests include international relations, comparative foreign policy, international organization, and European politics. Her research interests include comparative foreign policy, foreign aid and development cooperation, and ethnic politics. She is a member of the International Studies Association (ISA), the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Society of Political Psychology, and the European Union Studies Association. She has served on the executive committees and is past president of the APSA Foreign Policy Division, the ISA Midwest region, and the ISA Foreign Policy Analysis section. She has published articles in, among other journals, American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and International Politics and has coauthored a book with John Ishiyama. Together with Dr. Ishiyama, she edits the Journal of Political Science Education. She was part of the original ISA editorial team of Foreign Policy Analysis.