Chelsi Mueller is an assistant professor in the Department of Security Studies and International Affairs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. She earned her PhD in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University in Israel. She is the author of The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Helena Schmidt earned her B.A. in Homeland Security from the Department of Security Studies and International Affairs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.