Emily Whalen

Emily Whalen is a historian of U.S. foreign policy and of the Middle East. Dr. Whalen earned her PhD in History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2020, and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. She has been an Ernest May Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Smith Richardson Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at Yale’s International Security Studies Program, and an affiliated scholar at the American University of Beirut’s Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. Previously, Emily worked as a historical consultant for the EastWest Institute, an international, non-governmental think-tank specializing in Track-II diplomacy. Her writing appears in several online publications. Her book manuscript, The Lebanese Wars: An International History is under revision.