Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland

Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland works as the Intelligence Project Administrator, where she supports events, programming, and the Recanati-Kaplan Fellows. She previously worked as a Research Assistant for Paul Kolbe, a Senior Fellow at the Intelligence Project.

Lucy is earning her master’s degree in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at Harvard's Davis Center. Her thesis focuses on Georgian-Ossetian peace-building projects in Georgia, and she will graduate in November 2024. She also recently spent an academic year teaching courses on hybrid warfare at Gori State University in Georgia, which is only 20 kilometers from Russian-occupied South Ossetia.

Lucy primarily studies Russian warfare in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. She lived in Ukraine and Georgia for a combined two years. She has also spent years studying Russia’s war in Ukraine, conducting significant graduate research on the subject, and working with NGOs, universities, and media outlets across Ukraine. She has studied Russian for 10 years and Ukrainian for five years. 

She previously completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Odesa, Ukraine from 2019-2020, a Critical Language Scholarship in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2022, and a Boren Fellowship in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2022-2023. She also interned remotely as a News Reporter at The Kyiv Independent in 2022 and the Council on Foreign Relations in 2020.