Assistant Research Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Rachel Myrick is an assistant research professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. After completing her PhD in Spring 2021, she will start as tenure-track assistant professor at Duke. Rachel specializes in international security, American foreign policy, and quantitative analysis. Her research explores how partisan polarization affects foreign policy making in democratic states, with an emphasis on US national security policy. Rachel is a faculty affiliate of the Program inAmerican Grand Strategy at Duke, the Carnegie International Policy Scholar Consortium and Network (IPSCON), and the America in the World Consortium (AWC). Her research is published or forthcoming in multiple academic journals, including International Organization, Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly. At Stanford, Rachel is a Ric Weiland Graduate Fellow in the Humanities & Sciences and a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict & Negotiation. She also co-organizes an interdisciplinary working group for graduate women called Female Academics in Foreign Policy (FAFP). Prior to attending Stanford, Rachel received an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a B.A. in Political Science and Global Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar.