Torrey Taussig is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is a Ph.D Candidate (exp. 2017) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where her dissertation examines the role of domestic political and economic factors in Russian and Chinese foreign policy.

During her fellowship, Taussig will focus on international and domestic challenges to liberal democracies and twenty-first century strategies pursued by revisionist states. Her research has been funded through fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation and the H.B. Earhart Foundation. She has experience working at the U.S. Department of State, the Glover Park Group, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a M.A. from the Fletcher School and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Williams College.