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