2011 Fellows

Kelsey Davenport

Fall 2011 Fellow, Arms Control Association

Education: University of Notre Dame, MA Peace Studies, 2011
Butler University, BA International Studies and Political Science, 2007

Issues Covering: Nuclear security, military budget

 

Philippe de Koning

Fall 2011 Fellow, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Education: Stanford University, BA International Relations, 2010

Issues Covering: U.S.-China nuclear security relations, nuclear materials security

 

Robert Taj Moore

Fall 2011 Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center

Education: Brown University, AB Political Science, 2011

Issues Covering: Nonproliferation, Iranian nuclear program, Middle East security

 

Jerome Simons

Fall 2011 Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council

Education: Johns Hopkins University, BS Physics and BA Mathematics, 2011

Issues Covering: Nuclear fuel cycle policy in the U.S., the global nuclear industry response to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster

 

Patricia Morris

Spring 2011 Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Education: London School of Economics, MSc Comparative Politics and Conflict Studies, 2010
Wellesley College, BA Political Science and French, 2008

Issues Covered: New START nuclear treaty follow-on, defense budget, nuclear terrorism threat, Afghanistan and Iran

Current Activities:  Following her fellowship Morris worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation on a project to create a report on the four-year goal President Obama set forth in 2009 to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials through improved security and weapons-usable material conversion and elimination.

 

Cassidy Regan

Spring 2011 Fellow, Friends Committee on National Legislation Education Fund

Education: University of Pennsylvania, BA International Relations, 2010

Issues Covered: Conflict prevention, peacekeeping, regional and ethnic conflict in Kenya

Current Activities: Regan is the Kenya Project Associate at FCNL, continuing some of the same projects that she worked on during her fellowship.

 

 

Javier Serrat

Spring 2011 Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Education: Boston University, BA International Relations, 2009

Issues Covered: WMD nonproliferation including sanctions, financial controls, Iran, verification, technology contraband, and Middle East track II dialogue

Current Activities: Serrat is a research assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies where he is working on the same issues — sanctions, anti-proliferation financing, and Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone verification — as he did during his fellowship.

 

Catherine Skroch

Spring 2011 Fellow, Truman National Security Project Educational Institute

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison BA International Relations, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies, and African Studies, 2009

Issues Covered: Nuclear Curriculum Development, Getting to Zero and Cooperative Threat Reduction Campaigns, International Human Security

Current Activities: Skroch is Grants Manager at the Truman National Security Project.