Professor John France, BA, PhD (Nottingham), FRHS 

Professor France works on warfare and crusading. A monograph on The Crusades and the Expansion of Europe is shortly to be published with Routledge, and he is also working on Warfare from the Fall of Rome to the Millennium. As part of his research for the latter, he has compiled an electronic database of lives of saints prior to the year 1000.  Professor France is director of the here at Swansea.

Dr Stephen McVeigh, BA (Westminster), PhD (Wales)

Dr McVeigh is the author of The American Western (Edinburgh, 2007). Amongst his other published work are the essays ‘The Galactic Way of War: Warfare in the Star Wars Universe’ in Finding the Force in the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics (eds. John Shelton Laurence & Matthew Kapell, Peter Lang Press, 2006) and ‘Eastwood’s Revisions of Shane’ in Clint Eastwood: Actor/Director (ed. Len Engel, University of Utah Press, 2007) and he is the contributor of the section ‘American Fiction 1900-1945’ in Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press, 2004-06). His research interests include War and American Society, Representations of War in Visual and Literary Culture, The American West, 20th Century American Literature, American Film & American Popular Culture.

Professor Michael Sheehan, BSc, PhD (Wales) 

Professor Sheehan’s research interests are in the fields of international security, North-East Asia, and the international politics of space. Recent publications include International Security: An Analytical Survey (2005); National and International Security (2000); Elements in Political Science, (with Frank Bealy and Richard Chapman, 1999), and The Balance of Power: History and Theory (1996). He is currently completing a book on The International Politics of Space. His current research focuses on the military use of outer space, and on the relationship between democracy and war.