Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Analyst
Catrina Doxsee is a PhD student in the security studies program at Princeton University and a fellow (on leave) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. She primarily studies irregular warfare and international and domestic terrorism, and her most recent research has focused on West Africa, Russian private military companies (PMCs), far-right violent extremism, and Chinese political warfare.
Catrina was a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point and was the 2021 counterterrorism fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. She previously worked as an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute and has also conducted research at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Middle East and North Africa Office. Before that, she served for two years in AmeriCorps as a refugee resettlement caseworker in Pittsburgh.
Catrina holds a BA with honors in history, with a concentration in military history, from the University of Chicago and an MA with honors in strategic studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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Security and governance in West Africa
Implications of great power competition and changing world order for sub-Saharan African nations and African autonomy
Russian and Chinese use of private military/security companies
U.S. domestic and transnational far-right terrorism
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Treasurer, Women’s Wargaming Network (2022-2023)
CSIS Intern/Peer Mentor (2020-2023)
Girl Security Volunteer Mentor (2020-2023)
CSIS Diversity and Leadership in International Affairs Advisory Board (2022-2023)
CSIS Safety Officer (2022-2023)
CSIS Service Committee (2021-2023)
Reading All-Stars, 826DC (Volunteer 2017-2022; Coordinator 2021-2022)
Board of Directors, National Coalition for Literacy (Member 2019-2021; Treasurer 2020-2021)
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Counterterrorism Fellow (YPFP, 2021)
Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Security in the 21st Century (Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2017)
Dalsemer Fellowship (Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2016-2017)
Bologna Fellowship (Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2015-2016)
Lessons of the Iraq War (Hertog Foundation, 2014)
Political Studies Program (Hertog Foundation, 2012)
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Spanish (Advanced)
Farsi/Persian (Intermediate)
Latin (Intermediate)
French (Elementary Reading)