Although self-described as boring, Lieutenant Colonel Roy Collins, representing the US Air Force as a National Security Affairs Fellow in 2013-14, is anything but. Humorous, open, friendly (he shared almost immediately that he watches Scandal), and very confident, there were many amusing moments throughout the interview. Collins’s jokes aside, he is a career security forces officer with experience in nuclear security operations and force protection. For his year at Hoover, he is focusing on modernization, recapitalization, and the impact of sequestration on the Department of Defense from a readiness standpoint.

One significant consequence of the revolution in Russia in 1917 was the mass exodus of opponents of the Bolshevik regime: the first mass political emigration of the twentieth century. The fate of these émigrés continues to interest historians and other researchers to this day; bearing in mind growing trends in international history and migration studies, it will continue to do so in the future.