Alyssa Resar is a Research Assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She works on Applied History and international security, with a focus on East Asia and the history of grand strategy. 

Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Resar graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Government and East Asian Studies. While at Harvard, she was the Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her senior thesis, which examined the intersections between regime type and military decision-making, won the Eric Firth Prize.