Luke Schumacher is a nonresident America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, and a nonresident Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

His research explores grand strategy and constitutional law, with an emphasis on U.S. foreign policy. His dissertation, The Constitutional Origins of Grand Strategy, asks why some states craft and execute long-term, integrated, and prioritized strategies while others do not. The project argues that constitutional design shapes leadership continuity and the concentration of foreign-policy authority, which together influence whether states pursue coherent foreign policies over time.

Luke’s academic work has appeared in edited volumes and in the Texas National Security Review. His commentary may be found at War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The National Interest, and other outlets.

Before graduate school, he served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer for over six years, including assignments in Afghanistan, South Korea, and elsewhere across the Indo-Pacific. He holds a B.S. in American politics from West Point, an M.Phil. in intellectual history from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Rotary Scholar, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was a Jacobson Scholar and Rumsfeld Foundation Graduate Fellow.

Aside from work, Luke is a former Division I football player who enjoys watching Army beat Navy, a hopeless cook, and a decent hiker. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.