Dr. Claire Metelits is a Professor of Strategic Studies at Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College. Prior to this she taught in the School of International Service at American University and was an advisor for USAFRICOM at CJTF-HOA in Djibouti.
Dr. Metelits has conducted research on state and non-state governance throughout Africa and the Middle East, in Afghanistan, and Colombia.
She is the author of Inside Insurgency (2010), Security in Africa (2016), and co-editor of Democratic Contestation on the Margins: Regimes in Small African Countries (2015). She has published both scholarly and non-scholarly works.
She received her Doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University.