Amanda J. Rothschild
Research Fellow, International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Research Expertise: US Foreign Policy, International Security
Dr. Rothschild is a research fellow in the International Security Program with the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a member of the MIT Security Studies Program. Rothschild's research concerns international security, US foreign policy, humanitarian intervention, and presidential history. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in International Security, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, and the Boston Globe, among other outlets. In 2016, Rothschild received the International Studies Association's Patricia Weitsman Award, which recognizes the best research paper on any aspect of international security studies written by a graduate student.
She is also a recent recipient of a National Fellowship from the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies, a Tobin Project Graduate Research Fellowship in National Security, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention Award.
From 2013-2015, Rothschild served as Co-Chair of the Women in International Politics and Security Working Group (WIPS). The group, which seeks to advance opportunities for women in international security, is comprised of over seventy graduate students, faculty, and researchers working on security issues in the Boston area. Rothschild advised the 2016 Marco Rubio for President Campaign as a member of his Democracy and Human Rights Working Group, in addition to serving on his Foreign Policy Research Team.
Rothschild received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from Boston College in 2011. At commencement, she was awarded the Finneran Commencement Award, the highest honor given to a graduating senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Donald S. Carlisle Award for outstanding achievement in political science, and the John McCarthy S.J. Award for the most distinguished "Scholar of the College" thesis in the social sciences. As a student-athlete, she was twice named to the Division I Hockey East Academic All-Star Team. In May 2016, she was named to Sports Blog Nation's BC Interruption "All People's Choice Award Team," in their article "BC Women's Hockey Dream Lineups: Lots of Familiar Names."
To learn more about her research, see Sarah Baldwin's profile for MIT, "The Courage to Dissent: Political Science Meets Personal History," or Casey Campbell's for the Belfer Center, "Investigating U.S. Debate and Response to Mass Killings."
Research Fellow, International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Research Expertise: US Foreign Policy, International Security
Dr. Rothschild is a research fellow in the International Security Program with the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a member of the MIT Security Studies Program. Rothschild's research concerns international security, US foreign policy, humanitarian intervention, and presidential history. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in International Security, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, and the Boston Globe, among other outlets. In 2016, Rothschild received the International Studies Association's Patricia Weitsman Award, which recognizes the best research paper on any aspect of international security studies written by a graduate student.
She is also a recent recipient of a National Fellowship from the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies, a Tobin Project Graduate Research Fellowship in National Security, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention Award.
From 2013-2015, Rothschild served as Co-Chair of the Women in International Politics and Security Working Group (WIPS). The group, which seeks to advance opportunities for women in international security, is comprised of over seventy graduate students, faculty, and researchers working on security issues in the Boston area. Rothschild advised the 2016 Marco Rubio for President Campaign as a member of his Democracy and Human Rights Working Group, in addition to serving on his Foreign Policy Research Team.
Rothschild received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from Boston College in 2011. At commencement, she was awarded the Finneran Commencement Award, the highest honor given to a graduating senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Donald S. Carlisle Award for outstanding achievement in political science, and the John McCarthy S.J. Award for the most distinguished "Scholar of the College" thesis in the social sciences. As a student-athlete, she was twice named to the Division I Hockey East Academic All-Star Team. In May 2016, she was named to Sports Blog Nation's BC Interruption "All People's Choice Award Team," in their article "BC Women's Hockey Dream Lineups: Lots of Familiar Names."
To learn more about her research, see Sarah Baldwin's profile for MIT, "The Courage to Dissent: Political Science Meets Personal History," or Casey Campbell's for the Belfer Center, "Investigating U.S. Debate and Response to Mass Killings."
