Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin joined George Mason University in September 2011. She teaches Masters and PhD courses in security studies and public policy. Prior to that, she was a faculty member and director of the core course on military strategy at the U.S. National War College (2007-2011). She came to the war college from Oxford University, where she was Director of Studies for the Oxford/Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War from 2005 to 2007. She continues to be a non-residential Senior Research Associate at Oxford.