Current Students

Alexis Dale-Huang is a PhD candidate at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, concentrating in security studies. She is also an adjunct policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and a 2025-2026 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy and military strategy. Before joining RAND, Alexis worked as a research assistant at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Alexis received her B.A. in international relations and East Asian area studies from the University of Southern California and her M.A. in Asian studies from Georgetown University. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

Born and raised in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Agostina is a PhD student in Security Studies at SPIA and a Fulbright Scholar. Her research interests include foreign policy, nuclear policy in the Global South, security policy and militarization in Latin America. Before coming to Princeton, she was Director of Analysis of Geopolitical Transformations at the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of Argentina where she conducted research and advised on foreign policy.

Her advisor is Miguel A. Centeno and she’s currently working on her dissertation proposal, a project in which she will study how the new roles and missions of the Armed Forces in Latin America are transforming civil-military relations.

She holds an M.A. in International Politics and Economics from Universidad de San Andrés and a B.A. in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato di Tella.

Ned is a researcher working on political economy and decarbonization pathways in China and India. He came to Princeton after his appointment as a non-resident fellow at the Columbia University SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy studying Chinese decarbonization target-setting among provinces and businesses. He previously worked at the economic consultancy Analysis Group in Boston within the energy and finance practice areas. He hopes to build a career as a policy researcher and practitioner supporting decarbonization policy in Asia.

Catrina is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Security Studies cluster focusing on irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and quantitative methods. She is also an associate fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative. She was the 2021 counterterrorism fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Catrina has previously conducted research at the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Middle East and North Africa Office, and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins. She also served for two years in AmeriCorps as a refugee resettlement caseworker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Catrina holds a B.A. with honors in history, with a concentration in military history, from the University of Chicago and an M.A. with honors in strategic studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Evan is an incoming Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program. He previously completed his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a second major in environmental studies, where he engaged in research through the university’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the intersection of modeling and emerging technologies for waste valorization in complex chemical processes and supply chains. He later had the opportunity to complete a policy-focused research internship in Washington, D.C., through the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program. He is driven toward science policy questions surrounding the roles of emerging technologies in broader societal challenges, and is interested in how researchers can use large scale, integrated modeling frameworks to study the economic, environmental, and social implications of the technology’s adoption and its place within existing policy environments. Outside of his primary research interests, Evan is a cellist and also enjoys movies and exploring new places.