Political Warfare and Counterterrorism Analyst

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Catrina Doxsee is a PhD candidate in Security Studies at Princeton University, a fellow with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) Africa Program, and a fellow (on leave) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. She primarily studies international order, irregular warfare, and international and domestic terrorism. Her recent research has included decolonization in East Africa, security in Francophone West Africa, Russian private military companies (PMCs), Chinese political warfare, and transnational far-right violent extremism.

Previously, Catrina served as a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point and was the 2021 counterterrorism fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. She previously worked as an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute and has also conducted research at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Middle East and North Africa Office. Before that, she served for two years in AmeriCorps as a refugee resettlement caseworker in Pittsburgh.

Catrina holds a BA with honors in history, with a concentration in military history, from the University of Chicago and an MA with honors in strategic studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

    • Implications of great power competition and changing world order for African nations

    • Decolonization and self-determination in East Africa

    • Russian and Chinese use of private military/security companies

    • U.S. domestic and transnational far-right extremism

    • Graduate Fellow, Africa Program, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), 2025 – present

    • Counterterrorism Fellow, YPFP, 2021

    • Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Security in the 21st Century, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2017

    • Lessons of the Iraq War, Hertog Foundation, 2014

    • Political Studies Program, Hertog Foundation, 2012

    • Spanish (Advanced)

    • Farsi/Persian (Intermediate)

    • Kiswahili (Intermediate)

    • Latin (Intermediate)

    • French (Elementary Reading)

    • African Studies Association (ASA)

    • American Political Science Association (APSA)

    • International Studies Association (ISA)

    • National Capital Area Political Science Association (NCAPSA)

    • Women's Caucus for Political Science

    • Women's Wargaming Network

    • Mentor, Princeton Women in Economics and Policy, 2024 – present

    • CSIS Diversity and Leadership in International Affairs Advisory Board, 2022 – 2023

    • Treasurer, Board of Directors, Women’s Wargaming Network 2022 – 2023

    • Peer and Intern Mentor, CSIS, 2020 – 2023

    • Volunteer Mentor, Girl Security, 2020 – 2023

    • Safety Officer, CSIS, 2022 – 2023

    • CSIS Service Committee, 2021 – 2023

    • Volunteer, Reading All-Stars, 826DC, 2017 – 2022; Coordinator 2021 – 2022

    • Board of Directors, National Coalition for Literacy 2019-2021; Treasurer 2020-2021