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 Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program (formerly Transnational Threats Project) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. She focuses on irregular warfare and international and domestic terrorism. Her most recent research has focused on Russian private military companies (PMCs), far-right violent extremism, and Chinese political warfare.

Catrina is also a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point. She 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).