BROWSE EXPERTS AND FELLOWS
Belfer Center researchers include Harvard faculty members, project directors and other expert staff, senior fellows and fellows. They contribute frequently to outside publications, advise government officials, participate in special commissions, brief journalists and policymakers, and share research results with specialists and the public.
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LEGEND:
Fellow
Steven E. Miller
Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, International Security, and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security (which is published by the MIT Press).
Joseph S. Nye
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Dianne R. Pfundstein
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program
Dianne Pfundstein received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in May 2012, where her dissertation, "Credibility is Not Enough: The United States and Compellent Threats, 1945–2011" was nominated for the Bancroft prize.
Richard N. Rosecrance
Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
Richard Rosecrance is an adjunct professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is director of the Belfer Center's Project on U.S.-China Relations. He served on the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State. Most recently, he co-edited No More States? Globalization, National Self-determination, and Terrorism.
Eric Rosenbach
Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (on leave)
Eric Rosenbach is on leave to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyberpolicy.
Gary Samore
Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Member of the Board,, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Gary Samore is the Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center. Prior to this, he served for four years as President Obama’s White House Coordinator for Arms Control and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Terrorism, including as U.S. Sherpa for the 2010 and 2012 Nuclear Security Summits.
Anja Sletteland
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Anja Sletteland's research deals with how ideas about the world attain influence in the society. In her dissertation, she focuses on American narratives of the alliance between the United States and Israel. The project explores how diverging narratives play out in and shape the political discourse.
Annie Tracy Samuel
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Annie Tracy Samuel is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a junior research fellow at TAU's Center for Iranian Studies. Her doctoral dissertation examines the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iran-Iraq War and analyzes how the Guards have documented the war and their roles in the conflict.
Stephen M. Walt
Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs and is faculty chair of the International Security Program.
Daniel E. Zoughbie
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Dr. Daniel E. Zoughbie previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. His research examines U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.



