Following our commitment to foster relationships for our scholars and build a professional expert pipeline, AWC hosted the 2024 Fall Fellows Summit in Washington D.C. from November 5-7. Despite living and working across the country, the Summit — and other AWC events — offer fellows opportunities to meet in person, share and develop their scholarship, and meet with leading academics, experts, and policymakers.
This year, the fellows kicked off the Summit with breakfast with Barry Pavel, Vice President at RAND and Director of their National Security Research Division. For lunch, the fellows were joined by Hal Brands, an AWC principal, and Frank Gavin, the Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
In the afternoon, Fellows toured the Senate and House Galleries before meeting with Kevin Kim, a professional staff member for the Senate Armed Services Committee.
One the second day of the Summit, Fellows stayed equally busy, kicking off with breakfast with Ronald Reagan Institute and leadership, including Roger Zakheim, Washington director, Rachel Hoff, policy director, and Anthony Eames, the director for scholarly initiatives at the Ronald Reagan Institute.
The fellows then met with Matthew Kroenig, vice president at the Atlantic Council and senior director of their Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. This was followed by lunch with James Graham Wilson, the supervisory history at the U.S. Department of State.
The Fellows then toured the Library of Congress Main Reading Room before having dinner with Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute. This closed the 2024 Fellows Summit. The fellows will reconvene in January at Duke University for a workshop focused on the future of security studies.
