Trevor McCrisken, chair of the BASIC board since 2007, is associate professor in US Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also associate fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, a North America Region Head with Oxford Analytica, and an adviser to the journal International Affairs. His research and publications are on US foreign policy, American national identity, and US politics and culture. His recent publications include American Exceptionalism and the Legacy of Vietnam: US Foreign Policy Since 1974 (2003) and (with Andrew Pepper) American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (2005).