CV

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EDUCATION

Oxford University 
Ph.D., International Relations
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Georgetown University 
M.A., Security Studies
Honors

University of Bucharest
B.A., Political Science
Valedictorian

2010-2014

2008-2010

2004-2008

EMPLOYMENT

Bilkent University 
International Relations Department
Assistant Professor

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Department of International Relations
Visiting Teaching Fellow

Hamburg University 
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Visiting Research Fellow

Yale University 

International Security Studies

Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow in Grand Strategy

Harvard University 
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Managing the Atom Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow

Cornell University 
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Johns Hopkins University 
School of Advanced International Studies
George L. Abernethy Predoctoral Fellow

2018-present

January 2020

Summer 2019

2017-2018

2015-2017

2014-2015

2013-2014

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Eliza Gheorghe. 2022 “Balance of Power Redux: Nuclear Alliances and the Logic of Extended Deterrence”, The Chinese Journal Of International Politics 15(1).

Eliza Gheorghe. 2019. “Proliferation and the Logic of the Nuclear Market”, International Security 43(4).

Eliza Gheorghe. 2018. “Peace for Atoms”, International History Review 40(5). 

Anne Harrington, Eliza Gheorghe, Anya Loukianova Fink. 2017. “What Arguments Motivate

Citizens to Demand Nuclear Disarmament?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Eliza Gheorghe. 2014. “Building Détente in Europe?” European Review of History 21(2).

Eliza Gheorghe. 2013. “Atomic Maverick” Cold War History 13(3).

Book Chapters

Sonja Schmid and Eliza Gheorghe. Forthcoming. “The Evolution of Nuclear Industries and Nuclear Markets.” In Leopoldo Nuti and Christian Ostermann, The Cambridge History of the Nuclear Age (Cambridge University Press).

Eliza Gheorghe. Forthcoming. “Polarity, Proliferation, and Restraint: A Market-Centric Approach.” In Bertel Heurlin, Nina Graeger, Anders Wivel and Ole Waever (eds.), Polarity in International Relations – Past, Present, Future (Palgrave Macmillan).

Eliza Gheorghe. 2020. “Peace for Atoms. US Non-Proliferation Policy and the Romanian Role in the Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-1971.” In The Making of the Global Nuclear Order in the 1970s, eds. David Holloway and Leopoldo Nuti. Routledge.

Eliza Gheorghe. 2015. “Nicolae Ceausescu.” In Mental Maps in the Era of Detente and the End of the Cold War, 1968-1991 , eds. Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright. Palgrave Macmillan pp.60-80.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Independent Instructor

Nuclear Weapons and National Security, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

IR 5120: Topics in International Security, Bilkent University

IR 4198: Nuclear Proliferation and International Politics, Bilkent University

IR 358: International Security, Bilkent University

IR 101: Introduction to World Politics, Bilkent University

HIST/GOVT-4372: History of Nuclear Weapons, Cornell University

DPIR 213: International Relations in the Era of the Cold War, Oxford University 2011 (Teaching Assistant)

Teaching Assistant

SA.200.736.20.SP14: Major Issues in US Foreign Policy, JHU-SAIS, John Harper

2020

2020-2022

2019-2022

2019-2022

2018-2020

2015

2011

2014

PROJECT ACQUISITION AND COORDINATION

Stanton Foundation 
Nuclear Security Research Grant
Co-PI with Prof. Andrew Coe and Bradley Smith, Vanderbilt University
Budget ~ $200,000

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) 
International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers
Project title: The Globalization of the Atom
Team size – 5 Ph.D. students
10 undergraduate & MA students
Budget ~ 3,000,000 TL

University of Vienna 
IAEA History Research Project Individual Research Grant

University of Vienna 
IAEA History Research Project Individual Research Grant

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant 

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Global Scholars Grant 

2022-2023

2019-2022

June-October 2018

July-August 2015

July 2013

June 2013

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Spoilers from Within: Allies and Nuclear Inhibition”

ISA Panel

“Status and the Nuclear Market”

ISA Panel

“Acquisition Pathways and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons”

ISA Panel

“Proliferation and the Logic of the Nuclear Market”

APSA Annual Convention, Boston MA

ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore MD

Peace Science Society Conference, South Bend IN

Yale University, New Haven CT

“Nuclear Alliances”

NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada

APSA Annual Convention, Boston MA

European Initiative on Security Studies, Paris

ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco CA

“Brazil and the Nuclear Market”

ISSS-ISAC Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

“Proliferation Among Allies”

Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Seminar, Washington, DC

Nuclear Studies Research Initiative, Airlie House VA

ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans LA

RMIT & MIT, Melbourne Australia

“Regional Disputes of Power and Nuclear Proliferation”

APSA Annual Convention, Boston MA

ISA Annual Convention, Atlanta GA

“Nuclear Smuggling Rings and Russian Counterproliferation Strategy”

ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco CA

Cornell University

March 29, 2022

April 8, 2021

August 30, 2018

February 25, 2017

October 20, 2016

September 23, 2016

January 19, 2020

September 27, 2019

March 29, 2019

September 2, 2018

June 21, 2018

April 7, 2018

October 14, 2017

November 14, 2015

October 13-14, 2015

May 1, 2015

February 18, 2015

January 8-10, 2015

August 31, 2018

March 19, 2016

April 7, 2018

December 15-16, 2014

SELECTED INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCES

ETH Zurich

Bilkent Academia Summit

Turkish Academy of Sciences

Virginia Tech

SAIS Europe

Kadir Has University

University of Leiden

Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program

Global Zero and Munich Security Conference

King’s College London, Enhancing Deterrence Dialogue in Europe

University of Oslo, Oslo Nuclear Project

University of Oslo, Department of Political Science

IFSH, University of Hamburg & Kissinger Centre, JHU

London School of Economics, IR Security Research Cluster

Koç University, International Relations Seminar

Protestant Academy Loccum

Bilkent University, International Relations Society

Hacettepe University

Hertie School of Governance

Yale University, International Security Studies Program

Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Fundação Getulio Vargas, Centro de Relações Internacionais

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Harvard University, Project on Managing the Atom

Cardiff University, School of Law and Politics

Harvard University, International Security Program

Harvard University, Project on Managing the Atom

University of Chicago, Program on International Security Policy

University of Vienna, IAEA International History Project

Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Franklin University – Lugano

ETH-Zurich

University of Oxford, St Antony’s College

February 17, 2022

December 26, 2021

December 17, 2021

September 30, 2021

April 19, 2021

February 22, 2021

December 10, 2020

December 4, 2020

October 9, 2020

June 15, 2020

March 25, 2020

March 16, 2020

December 15, 2019

October 23, 2019

September 23, 2019

June 24, 2019

May 9, 2019

April 24, 2019

March 15, 2019

April 24, 2018

April 11, 2018

August 4, 2017

May 11-12, 2017

November 2, 2016

June 29 – July 1, 2016

May 12, 2016

March 23, 2016

January 26, 2016

August 19, 2015

April 7, 2015

March 31, 2014

March 1-2, 2014

January 24, 2014

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Turkish Academy of Sciences 
Outstanding Young Scientist Award

Schmidt Futures & Rockefeller Foundation 
International Strategy Fellow

Fundação Getulio Vargas Nuclear Security Fellowship

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 
Junior Fellow

University of Oxford 
Department of Politics and International Relations Studentship

University of Oxford 
St Catherine’s College Graduate Scholarship (Arts)

University of Oxford
Jenkins Memorial Fund Scholarship

Georgetown University 
Security Studies Program Honors Award

Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission
Fulbright Junior Award

Georgetown University 

Security Studies Program Merit Scholarship

2020

2020

June-August 2017

June-August 2016

2012-2013

2012-2013

2011-2012

May 2010

2009-2010

June 15, 2020

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Yale University, Political Science Department 
Quantitative Empirical Methods

Columbia University 
Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy

Stanford University 
Nuclear Proliferation International History Project Nuclear Boot Camp

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 
Nuclear Proliferation International History Project Nuclear Boot Camp

LSE & Peking University 
Summer School on International Relations, Beijing

August 2017 – May 2018

July 5-18, 2015

September 2014

June 2012

July 2009

ADVISING & SUPERVISION

MA Thesis

2019-2021: Burak Bulut

2020-2022: Isil Idrisoglu

2020-2022: Sanem Topal

 

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee

2020: Widy Susanto

SERVICE

External

Reviewer:
International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Security
Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Strategic Studies,
Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, Third World Quarterly, Cahiers du Monde
Russe, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Journal of Arabian Studies, Perspectives,
Romanian Journal of Political Science
Fulbright Student Award Competition, The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission

Professional Associations Membership

Fulbright Student Award Competition, The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission

Professional Associations Membership

Member of the Governing Council
International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association

Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)

Member of the American Political Science Association (APSA)

Member of the Peace Science Society

Panel Chair

International Studies Association Annual Meeting

 2020-2023

2014-present

2014-present

2016-present

March 2022

New Sources on the Middle East, Ankara 
Bilkent University & Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

European Initiative on Security Studies, Paris

Panel Discussant
International Studies Association Annual Meeting

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 
“How Do States Seek the Bomb?”

ISA Panel 
“New Research on International Security Alliances and Great Power Grand Strategy”

APSA panel 
“Power Shifts: Strategies, Responses, and Consequences for the 21st Century”

Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program 

“Before the Bomb” Workshop

ISA panel canceled because of COVID-19 
“New Research on Asymmetric Alliances and Great Power Grand Strategy”

ISA panel 
“New Issues in Nuclear Studies: A Mixed-Methods Approach”

Yale University 
“Nuclear Age Conference”

October 17, 2019

June 28, 2019

March 2022

February 2, 2022

April 6, 2021

September 10, 2020

June 18, 2020

March 2020

April 7, 2018

September 23, 2016

University

Center for Russian Studies, Bilkent University
Seminar series co-organizer

Comprehensive Exams Committee, Bilkent University

Convener of the International Relations Seminar Series, Bilkent University

Co-convener of the International Relations Seminar Series, Bilkent University

2019-present

2020-2021

2020-present

2019-2020

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

English, Romanian, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese

Software

stata, R, LATEX