Mailing Address: 5828 S. University Ave. 301 Pick Hall Chicago, IL 60637
Office: 514 Foster Hall
Phone: (773) 702-3268
Fax: (773) 702-5140
Email: mjreese@uchicago.edu
Hello, my name is Michael Joseph Reese and I study international politics. I am currently an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. I also serve as an Associate Faculty Director of Chicago's Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES) Workshop series. My primary academic interests are in the areas of International Security, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy.
A native of Wisconsin, I received my B.A. in Government and History from Lawrence University. During my time at Lawrence, I participated in American University's Washington Semester Program and interned with the Center for Security Policy. After graduation, I worked at the Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Washington DC offices. I then returned to school to receive my M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University. While a student at Ohio State, I served as a Research Assistant at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and participated in the Summer Institute in Political Psychology (SIPP). As I completed my dissertation, I taught courses independently as an instructor in both Ohio State's Political Science Department and International Studies Program.
I am specifically interested in international relations theory, international security, asymmetric conflict & terrorism, American foreign policy and grand strategy, crisis politics, comparative politics and political development, and security community and identity theory. As a proud former participant in the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), I am committed to theory-driven scholarship that utilizes quantitative techniques in tandem with rigorous qualitative investigation.
