Catherine McArdle Kelleher
Catherine McArdle Kelleher (born January 19, 1939 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American political scientist .
Life
Kelleher studied Political Science at Mount Holyoke College (AB 1960) in South Hadley, Massachusetts. In 1960/61 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Free University of Berlin (FRG). In 1967 she earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1975/76 she was a Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, from 1973 to 1978 Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, from 1973 to 1978 Associate Professor for Political Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and from 1979 to 1983 professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
She was a Staff Member (1977/78) of the United States National Security Council of US President Jimmy Carter . Under Ronald Reagan she was a professor (1980–1982) at the Military Strategy Department of the Naval War College in Washington, DC; she later became editor of the Naval War College Press (2002-2005). She was then Secretary of Defense's Personal Representative in Europe and Defense Advisor to the US Ambassador to NATO (1994–1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, International Security Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1996–1996) 1998) in the Clinton administration.
Kellerher was founding director (1985–1991) of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and professor (1982–1991) at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. In 2006 she became a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park . She is also a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Professor Emeritus in the Strategic Research Department of Naval War College.
From 1983 to 1994 she was a consultant in the Peace and Security Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation . From 1990 to 1994 she was Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC From 1998 to 2001, she headed the Aspen Institute in Berlin. From 2004 to 2009 she was Senior Faculty Associate at the Geneva Center for Security Policy .
In 1976/77 she was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations . From 1980 to 1982 she was a NATO Research Fellow, from 1981 to 1985 Ford International Security Studies Fellow and 1988/89 Kistiakowsky Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences . In 1992, she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College of the University of Oxford . From 2003 to 2006 she was honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin.
Kelleher is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Committee on National Security . She was Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control and a member of the Committee on International Security Studies at the National Academy of Sciences. Since 2007 she has been a member of the local Naval Studies Board. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of International Security since 1978 , previously working for the International Studies Quarterly . In 1986 she was the founding president of Women in International Security . From 1993 to 2004 she was a board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . Since 1990 she has been represented on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research .
Kellerher is widowed and the mother of two children.
Honors
- 1960: Phi Beta Kappa
- 1980: Honorary Doctorate (DLitt), Mount Holyoke College
- 2001: Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
Awards
- 1996: Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
- 1998: Director's Medal, Defense Intelligence Agency
- 2004: Manfred Wörner Medal , Federal Ministry of Defense
- 2007: Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service, American Political Science Association
Fonts (selection)
- Germany & the politics of nuclear weapons . Columbia University Press, New York a. a. 1975, ISBN 0-231-03960-3 .
- with Jane MO Sharp , Lawrence Freedman (eds.): The treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe. The politics of post-wall arms control (= Democracy, Security, Peace . Vol. 100). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4435-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Catherine McArdle Kelleher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for Catherine McArdle Kelleher in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Catherine McArdle Kelleher at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy , College Park
- Catherine McArdle Kelleher at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
- Catherine McArdle Kelleher at the Geneva Center for Security Policy
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kelleher, Catherine McArdle |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |