Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) - Social science advancing the understanding of international security and terrorism

CPOST People

Featured Researcher

Jenna Jordan

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

Jenna Jordan is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of Chicago specializing in the study of leadership decapitation of terrorist organizations. Her work has been featured in the journal Security Studies, and discussed by prominent journalists in the New York Times. Jordan is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago...

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Director

Robert A. Pape
Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago

Executive Assistant

Jacob Homan
BA, Purdue University

Faculty Fellows

Risa Brooks
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Dan Byman
Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

Chaim Kaufmann
Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University

Roger Petersen
Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daryl Press
Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Betsy Sinclair
Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago

Stephen Snyder
Professor of Philosophy, Fatih University, Turkey

Research Associates

Maryam Alimirah
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Josie Bechara
M.A., The University of Chicago

Megan Furman
M.A., The University of Chicago

Sylvia Hammad
M.A., The University of Chicago

Kaan Kadioglu
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Jenna McDermit
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Dana Rovang
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Keven Ruby
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Ezra Schricker
Doctoral Student, Ohio State University

Martin Wolberg-Stok
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Susan Young
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Brenda Kay Zylstra
M.A., University of Chicago

Research Fellows

Nicole Argo
Doctoral Candidate, The New School for Social Research

David Benson
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Keren Fraiman
Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institution of Technology

Jenna Jordan
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Rose Kelanic
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Chad Levinson
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Michelle Murray
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, The University of Chicago, International Studies Program

Lindsey O'Rourke
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Negeen Pegahi
Assistant Professor, National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College

Strategic Advisor

Ken Feldman
Ph.D., Harvard University
Col (Ret), USAF

Native Language Consultants (partial list)

Amir Wielinski
Hebrew

Emily Hauser
Hebrew
M.A., The University of Chicago

Rani Fedson
Tamil

Maryam Alimirah
Arabic
Undergraduate, The University of Chicago

Omar Cheta
Arabic
Doctoral Candidate, New York University

Rochdi Younsi
Arabic
Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Sevag Kechichian
Arabic
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Edward Cohn
Russian
Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Sophia Akbar
Urdu
Law Student, University of Iowa

Dina Rashed
Arabic
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Web and Data Design

Bob Johnson
Ph.D., Cornell University
Argonne National Laboratory

Chad Levinson
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Dana Rovang
Doctoral Student, The University of Chicago

Keven Ruby
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Pamela Richmond
Project Manager, Argonne National Laboratory

Jenna Jordan
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Chicago

Halsey Roberts
Director of Development