A leading political scientist and an authority on game theory, social-choice theory, and fair division, Steven J. Brams is a professor of politics at New York University. Among the applications he has made of his theories are several to domestic politics, especially to voting and elections, international politics, notably to crises and wars, and theological issues. In Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible (1980 and 2003), he uses the mathematical theory of games to analyze selected stories from the Hebrew Bible that are rich in conflict and intrigue and, by reducing complex situations to a few critical decisions, demonstrates the rationality of the players. In Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know? (1983 and 2007) and Theory of Moves (1994), he shows how a major reformulation of classical game theory can help elucidate the role that different kinds of power may have in conflict outcomes and how players’ choices may be affected by misinformation. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Brams received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1966. He was a research associate at the Institute for Defense Analysis and an assistant professor at Syracuse University before joining the NYU faculty in 1973. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Rochester, the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Haifa, Yale University, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Bram has been president of both the Peace Science Society and the Public Choice Society. His work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Public Choice Society, the Ford Foundation, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the NYU Research Challenge Fund. He has published some 240 research papers and is the co-editor of two books and the author or co-author of fourteen others. His most recent books are (with Alan D. Taylor) The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody (W. W. Norton, 1999), a blueprint for getting to “yes” in conflict negotiation, and Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures, which will be published later this year by Princeton University Press and shows how social-choice and game theory can make political and social institutions more democratic.