Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Whalen
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- emilyingridwhalen@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- The University of Texas - Austin
- Website URL
- http://emilyingridwhalen.com/
- Keywords
- US Foreign Relations, Middle East, Lebanon, 20th Century, Civil War, International System, Political Violence, Sovereignty
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Emily Whalen earned her PhD in International History at the University of Texas – Austin in 2020. She has been an Ernest May Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Smith Richardson Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at Yale’s International Security Studies Program and an affiliated scholar at the American University of Beirut’s Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. This year, Emily is a post-doctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. The PEO Sisterhood and the American Association of University Women have also supported her work.
Previously, Emily worked as a historical consultant for the EastWest Institute, an international, non-governmental think-tank specializing in Track-II diplomacy, and as a coder for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Database, covering political violence in Pakistan. Her writing appears in several online publications, including Foreign Policy, Task and Purpose, Lawfare, H-Diplo, and The New Rambler Review. A distinguished graduate of the University of Virginia (BA 2010), Emily speaks French, Italian, and Levantine Arabic.
- Recent Publications
Anatomies of Revolution by George Lawson | H-Diplo
Preventing Palestine by Seth Anziska and Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi | The New Rambler
How likely is a new American Civil War? | Task & Purpose
Lebanon’s Elections: Beyond the Iranian-Saudi Rivalry | Lawfare
Lebanon’s Elections: Potential Departure from the Status Quo | Lawfare
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/eiwhalen
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Middle East, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Diplomacy, Military, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, World War II