Jacques E. C. Hymans is Assistant Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He is on leave for 2008-9 on an SSRC-Abe Fellowship in Japan, hosted by Keio University in Tokyo. Until 2008, Hymans was Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, as well as an affiliate of Harvard University's Olin Institute and Center for European Studies. Hymans' research focuses on international relations and foreign policy, with an emphasis on the growth and impact of collective identities. His book The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006) received the 2007 Edgar S. Furniss Award for the Best First Book in International Security Studies and the Alexander L. George Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology. He has held residential fellowships at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, and the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Harvard University Department of Government in 2001.