Allida Black, Ph.D., is Special Advisor and Historian to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Miller Center for the Study of the Presidency at the University of Virginia. She also serves as editor emeritus of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project and research professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. Widely recognized as an expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Professor Black has written and edited ten books, including Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism, as well as a variety of articles on women, politics, and human rights policy.