The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research relates to security studies. In monthly forums throughout the academic year, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2012 fellows in the National Security program.
Adam Chilton
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT; HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
PROJECT TITLE: Public Opinion, the Laws of War, and Saving Civilians
Christopher Clary
MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE: The Politics of Peace: The End of Inter-State Rivalries
Jeffrey Friedman
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, PUBLIC POLICY
PROJECT TITLE: Breakthrough Problems and Military Strategy
Sameer Lalwani
MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE: The Wars Within: Explaining State Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Consolidation
Nicholas Miller
MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE: The Myth of Nationalist Resistance: A Theory of Collaboration and Insurgency Under Foreign Occupation
Miranda Priebe
MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE: Managing the Rise of Regional Challengers: Assessing the Consequences of Mixing Conciliatory and Firm Policies
Ivan Rasmussen
TUFTS FLETCHER SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PROJECT TITLE: Rational Nationalism on the Rise: Chinese Public Opinion and Foreign Relations
Joshua Shifrinson
MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROJECT TITLE: Life on the Downward Slope: Exploitation, Restraint, and Great Power Decline
Jonathan Snow
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, POLITICS
PROJECT TITLE: Signaling Intent: The Use of Diplomacy, Actions, and the Media for Coercion in War
Jesse Tumblin
BOSTON COLLEGE, HISTORY
PROJECT TITLE: Defense Planning and Political Autonomy in the British Empire: The Defence and Imperial Conferences, 1909-1911