Faculty and Researchers
M Taylor Fravel
Director, Security Studies Program
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
M Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. Fravel is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a predoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, a fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program and a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and The China Quarterly, and is a member of the board of directors for the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Maritime Awareness Project.
Email
fravel@mit.edu
Website
Expertise
Asian security
East Asian foreign policy
Chinese politics and military policy
International relations
Conflict resolution
