Nicole Grajewski

Nicole is a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science & International Affair's Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard's Kennedy School. She was previously a predoctoral fellow with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center. Nicole received a PhD in International Relations and MPhil in Russian & East European Studies from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Russian and Iranian approaches to international order, with a particular emphasis on the global nuclear order and nuclear non-proliferation regime. Nicole has published on a range of issues involving both Russia and Iran including their respective bilateral relations, the Syrian Civil War, the JCPOA, and Eurasian regional organizations. Nicole has conducted extensive archival fieldwork and elite interviews in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. She speaks Russian, Farsi, and French.