Education:
BA University of Virginia
MA University of London
PhD London School of Economics and Political Science
Courses (click for syllabus):
DIP 600 Comparative Foreign Policy
DIP 712 The Weak State in International Security
Contact:
Phone: 859-257-6928
Email: stacy.closson@uky.edu
Brief Biography:
Stacy Closson came to the Patterson School directly from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. Dr. Closson was also a Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Center for Security Studies in Zurich and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. From 1996-1998, Dr. Closson was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Defense attached at intervals to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5), the Senate Appropriations Committee, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, and the Defense Attache Office in Ukraine. She then served for four years as the Ukraine and Caucasus Desk Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Her research interests inclue geopolitics, energy security, unrecognized states, civil-military relations, Russia, Caucasus, and Central Asia.
See Vita: .pdf format