Joseph R. Stromberg is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and has held the JoAnn B. Rothbard Chair in History at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. A columnist for Antiwar.com, his research interests include U.S. foreign policy and the "War on Terrorism." He received his B.A. and M.A. from Florida Atlantic University, and his further graduate work was completed at the University of Florida.

A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of articles in The Freeman, Telos, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Reason, Chronicles, Freedom Daily, and The Individualist, and he has been a Richard M. Weaver Fellow for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.