Phoebe Donnelly

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Working with Feinstein since 2013

Based in Williamstown, MA

Phoebe Donnelly is the Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow at Williams College, where she teaches on gender and conflict and security in Africa. She received her PhD in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2019. Phoebe’s dissertation examines forced marriage as a strategy of rebel groups and her case studies are al-Shabaab (in Somalia and Kenya) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (in Uganda).
Before starting her PhD program, Phoebe was the associate director of the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights at UMass-Boston. She also has policy experience through her work as a legislative correspondent for Senator Richard Blumenthal and as an intern for the State Department at the U.S. Mission to the UN.
Women in International Security (WIIS) selected Phoebe as one of their “Next Generation Gender Scholars.”
Phoebe holds a PhD in international relations and MA in law in diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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