Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research focuses upon political and military affairs in South Asia. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books including Cops as Counterinsurgents: Policing Insurgencies edited with Sumit Ganguly (2013, OUP) Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Lyons Press, 2008); and Treading Softly on Sacred Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations on Sacred Space edited withSumit Ganguly (OUP, 2008). Prior to joining Georgetown University, she served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and as a senior research associate in USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. She is also a senior fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.‌