2014 Graduate Student Fellows in National Security

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 2014 fellows in the National Security program.

Noel Anderson

Noel Anderson

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: The Hot Frontlines of a Cold War: Geopolitics, International Interventions, and Conflict in Southern Africa, 1975-1990

Erin Baggott

Erin Baggott

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: Small Events and High Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in US-China Relations, 1949-2012

Mark Bell

Mark Bell

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy: the Case of South Africa

Michael Broache

Michael Broache

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Evaluating the Impact of International Criminal Court Prosecutions on Transitions from Conflict

Jean-Baptiste Gallopin

Jean-Baptiste Gallopin

YALE UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY

PROJECT TITLE: Regime Change and Elite Structures: The Cases of Libya and Tunisia

Amanda Rothschild

Amanda Rothschild

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: To Liberate Mankind: US Responsiveness to Genocide and Mass Atrocity

Kai Thaler

Kai Thaler

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: When the Rebels Win: The Impact of Rebel Organization and Ideology on Conflict, Governance, and Development in Revolutionary Cuba and Nicaragua

Ches Thurber

Ches Thurber

TUFTS UNIVERSITY, FLETCHER SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PROJECT TITLE: Shaping (Non) Violence from Abroad: The Impact of External Actors on Revolutionary Strategy

Stephen Wittels

Stephen Wittels

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: To Protest or Rebel? Understanding the Origins of Nonviolent Resistance

George Yin

George Yin

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT

PROJECT TITLE: The Logic of Fear: Balance of Power, Nationalism, and Foreign Threat Perception