Robert Elias is Professor of Politics and Chair of Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he has received the Sarlo Prize, the Distinguished Research Award, and Frank Beach Service Award, and been a Davies Professor and the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair. He teaches courses on U.S. political history, human rights, constitutional law, American foreign policy, and baseball. Elias was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), Penn State University (M.A., PhD), and the University of Strasbourg (Certificate). He is the author of eight books, and numerous essays and articles in both popular and academic periodicals. He's the Editor in Chief of Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. He's received numerous honors, including a Fulbright Award and two MacArthur Grants. He’s taught at the University of California—Berkeley, Tufts University, the University of Maryland, and Penn State University. He’s been a researcher at the Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies (Boston), Oxfam America (Boston), the Vera Institute of Justice (New York), the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), and the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg). He lives in Mill Valley, California.