AWC Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Cody Joseph Billock is an America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Florida’s Hamilton School and doctoral candidate in the History Department at Ohio University. His dissertation, “Cold War Citadel: Huế & the Global Vietnamese Civil War, 1945-1975,” employs the central Vietnamese city of Huế as a case study to argue…

Daniel Brennan an America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a DPhil Student in History at Oriel College, Oxford, studying the emergence of Congressional oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies during the first half of the Cold War. He received his bachelors in History and Political Science from the University of…

Hasta Colman is an incoming America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, where she will also concurrently hold the position of Asia Policy Program Fellow during the coming academic year. Hasta comes to UT Austin from the Ph.D. program at Johns…

Benjamin Norwood Harris is an America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at John Hopkins SAIS and a PhD candidate at MIT. His dissertation research addresses how states assess their odds of victory before war. In other research projects, he examines how emerging technologies affect war initiation; how nations reach arms control agreements; and how…

Benjamin Schwabe is an America in the World Consortium Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Government. His research explores the relationship between necessity and liberty in early modern political philosophy. His dissertation project explores this relationship in the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli. It argues that…