Kiron K. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. She is also an associate professor of international relations and politics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is director of the Center for International Relations and Politics. Skinner is widely known in academic circles for her expertise in the areas of international relations, US foreign policy, and political strategy. In 2010, Skinner was appointed to the advisory board of the George W. Bush Oral History Project. She coauthored Reagan, in His Own Hand (2001), Reagan, a Life in Letters (2003), and Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (2007) and is the editor of Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (2008). Her opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, and CNN.com.