Craig Douglas Albert is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut.  Before entering graduate school, Mr. Albert received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Augusta State University.  In the spring of 2004 Mr. Albert received The University of Connecticut’s prestigious Educator of the Year Award, awarded to the best undergraduate instructor.  Mr. Albert has also been recognized by the American Political Science Association for Excellence in Teaching, where he appears in Politics and Political Science, a Journal of the America Political Science Association.  Mr. Albert’s research focus is in international security and ethnic conflict.  His areas of concentration are the Balkans and the Caucuses, concentrating especially on Chechnya and Dagestan.  Most recently, Mr. Albert was named as an Associate Fellow at the European Union Institute, located in Prague, Czech Republic.  While in residence, Mr. Albert taught over 60 students from 20 countries who are seeking to work with the European Union and the United States on issues concerning the future of international security.  Mr. Albert’s dissertation titled, “They Raped Our Mother: How Historical Memory Causes Ethnic Conflict” examines how collective memories, created by ancestral myths, legends, and stories of ethnic atrocities, causes an “imagined ethnic identity dilemma.”  Mr. Albert is expected to receive his doctorate in the Spring of 2006.