Catherine M. Kelleher Fellowship
The Catherine M. Kelleher Fellowship for International Security Studies supports outstanding graduate students at the School of Public Policy advancing cooperative approaches to addressing security challenges, broadly defined.
The award will be open to any student studying international security policy broadly defined, but will give special consideration to students interested in cooperative approaches to reducing nuclear risks and addressing other security challenges, an approach that Professor Kelleher championed as a scholar and a policy practitioner.
About Catherine M. Kelleher
Professor Kelleher was a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. She was a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where she also founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and Women in International Security (WIIS). Throughout her policy and academic careers, Professor Kelleher was a champion for women in the field of international security policy. This fellowship is intended to ensure that future generations benefit from the kind of support that she has given to countless people in the field today.
Learn more about Kelleher’s life and legacy. Donate to the current or endowed Kelleher Fellowship Fund.
Samantha Custer is a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her research interests include foreign policy influence, economic statecraft cooperative security and international development, with a particular focus on the role of development finance, public diplomacy and security cooperation in the Global South.
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Sarah Erickson is a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her research interests include the outer space-nuclear security nexus, impacts of emerging space technology on international security as well as the development of global space policies and strategies.
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Sanjana Gogna is a PhD student at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on nuclear weapons strategy and deterrence theory. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Gogna was a research associate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she authored a paper on nuclear multipolarity with a specific emphasis on South Asia.
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Samuel M. Hickey is a PhD student at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. He is also the Paul A. Castleman Policy Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (CACNP). Hickey's research is focused on the intersection of science and policy in the field of international security.
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Alexandra Borgeaud dit Avocat is a PhD student at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in international security. Her research interests include arms control, multi-stakeholder approaches to governance, and military applications of new technologies.
Alexandra is currently taking a break from her graduate studies to prepare for the Swiss Foreign Service exam.
Kelleher Fellow, Lauren Samuelsen, is a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a graduate research assistant at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Samuelsen's research examines nuclear material security policy in civilian settings.
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Inaugural Kelleher Fellow, Lindsay Rand, is a PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a graduate research assistant at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Rand’s research is focused on the intersection of science and policy in the field of international security.