{"id":369,"date":"2019-01-15T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=369"},"modified":"2022-04-21T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:36:26","slug":"emily-whalen","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/emily-whalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Whalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Smith Richardson Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at Yale\u2019s International Security Studies Program, and an affiliated scholar at the American University of Beirut&#8217;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,\u00a0<i>The Lebanese Wars: An International History\u00a0<\/i>is under revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2025,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-369","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Historian of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East","speaker_last_name":"Whalen","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/369\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}