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Kristin Mulready-Stone earned her PhD in Chinese History from Yale University, working under the direction of Jonathan Spence. She joined the Naval War College in June 2016 as Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Center. In addition to directing the Writing Center, she teaches courses through the Electives Program in the History of East and Southeast Asia. Her primary research focus is on the history of twentieth-century China, specifically the role of youth and youth organizations in the first half of the twentieth century. To date the majority of her research has focused on Shanghai from 1920-1945. She also teaches current East Asian Security through the lens of history.

Allen Benson began his career teaching music, performing, designing instruments, and publishing. During the 1970s and early 1980s he served on the music faculty at several colleges, including St. Olaf, Carleton, and Augsburg, and while serving in the U.S. Army he performed with the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point. He began a career in library administration and management in 1990 and has directed five library systems over the past 29 years. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. His research centers around the philosophy of image, language, ontology-based knowledge representation, and their intersections.