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Staff at the Institute for the Study of War
Kimberly Kagan, the President of ISW, is a military historian who has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale University, Georgetown University, and American University. She is currently an affiliate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Kagan previously held an Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History at Yale International Security Studies in 2004-2005 and was a National Security Fellow at Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in 2002-2003. She is the author of The Eye of Command (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and editor of The Imperial Moment (under contract with Harvard University Press). She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. Dr. Kagan recently published Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq and Afghanistan, Don't Short-Circuit the Surge in the Wall Street Journal, and The Patton of Counter-Insurgency in the Weekly Standard.
Jared Young, the Director of Communications of ISW, has worked in the media relations and communication field for the past 9 years with experience on Capitol Hill, the private sector, and the non-profit arena. From 2003-2004 he spent 10 months in Iraq as a Department of Defense civilian. He is currently working on a Master's Degree in International Relations at the University of Oklahoma.
David Phillips, the Staff and Research Assistant of ISW, holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University where he concentrated in Conflict and Security Studies and minored in World Religions. He also plans to pursue a Master's Degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Researchers at the Institute for the Study of War
Marisa M. Cochrane, the Research Manager of ISW, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies from Boston College, where she held a Presidential Scholarship and won the prestigious McCarthy Award for her scholarship in the Social Sciences. She has also studied at the London School of Economics.
Jeremy J. Domergue holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government with a minor in Arabic from Georgetown University. He is also a veteran of the United States Air Force, speaks fluent French and has studied three years of Persian (Farsi) at the university level.
Eric Hamilton holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance from Temple University and a Master’s degree in International Security Studies from Georgetown University. While at Georgetown he studied historical and contemporary military operations, in addition to terrorism/counterterrorism and Middle East security. Eric has worked at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies, as well as a number of other positions in both the private and public sectors. He has also lived and studied in Turkey, Italy and Greece.
Claire Russo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Politics from Tulane University. While at Tulane, she studied counterinsurgency operations, American foreign policy, and Arab language and culture. Claire has served in the Marine Corps for four years as an Intelligence Officer. In 2006, she deployed to Fallujah, Iraq where she completed one tour of duty and rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant. She has also traveled extensively in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Africa.
Undergraduate Researchers
Adam Willner is a senior at Georgetown University, where he is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy with minors in Arab Studies and Theology. He has also studied at Oxford University.
Wesley Morgan is a junior at Princeton University, where he is a cadet in Army R.O.T.C. He was embedded in Iraq in August 2007, reporting for the Daily Princetonian, and traveled with units in Baghdad and its belts.
Other Recent Contributors
Farook Ahmed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a Master’s degree in International Security Studies from Georgetown University. Following his graduation from Princeton University, he lived and worked in South Korea as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow.
James Tyson is a sophomore at Columbia University, where he plans to concentrate in Political Science and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, with a special interest in diplomacy.
Jonathan Bronitsky, Cambridge University, Master’s Student
Patrick Gaughen holds Master’s Degrees in Security Studies and Political Science from Georgetown and Duke Universities, respectively. Following his undergraduate work at Yale, he worked for the Department of Defense.
Leah Gould is a senior at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where she is also a cadet in Navy R.O.T.C. She was stationed on the USS Ronald Reagan while it deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Valiant Shield during her summer training cruise in 2006.
Adrian Myers, University of Toronto, Law School Student
Nathaniel Rabkin is a graduate of Cornell University. He studies the Middle East, reads Arabic and Farsi, and has worked as an intern at the American Enterprise Institute.
Cassiah Rasmussen holds a Master's Degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University.
Andrea So holds a Master's Degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University.
Ed Stein holds a B.A. in History from Yale University. He was a student in Yale’s Studies in Grand Strategy program. He has conducted archival research on twentieth-century British foreign policy in Cambridge and London.
William Waddell, The Ohio State University, Doctoral Candidate, Military History