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Recent Success for GRI’s Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Amidst a tough academic job market across higher education, GRI’s postdoctoral fellows program had a banner year. Four postdoctoral fellows in residence this past year and one recent alumni have landed impressive positions at leading academic institutions around the world.
, a postdoctoral fellow with GRI’s Security and Foreign Policy Initiative (SFPI) and an expert on order collapse in international politics, will start this fall as the tenure-track Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International Security at the University of Oklahoma.
, who also served as an SFPI postdoctoral fellow and specializes in joint military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region, will start in February 2026 as a tenure-track Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) in International Relations and International Security at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
, who analyzes summit diplomacy as social spaces and worked with 91¿´Æ¬Íø’s Diplomacy Lab, will become a tenure-track Assistant Professor with the Grace School of Applied Diplomacy at DePaul University.
Finally, , a joint postdoctoral fellow between GRI and VIMS, will wrap up her work on W&M’s Nepal Water Initiative this fall to become a permanent member of AidData’s Research and Evaluation Unit.
Recent success for GRI’s postdoctoral fellows program has not been confined to those scholars departing this year alone, either. , who served as GRI’s inaugural Security and Foreign Policy Initiative postdoctoral fellow from 2022 to 2024, will become a Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) in East Asian Security at King’s College London this fall. Dr. Paparella, currently in residence as a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Oxford and an expert on the socio-psychological dimensions of American statecraft in the Asia-Pacific region, will also publish his first book that he wrote while in residence at GRI. Entitled, Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia-Pacific, 1898-1972, it will come out with Stanford University Press in November.