Casey W. Mahoney
PhD Candidate, Political Science | University of Pennsylvania
Email: cmahoney@sas.upenn.edu | Twitter: @caseymahoney
BIOGRAPHY
Casey Mahoney is a rising sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct research associate at the RAND Corporation for summer 2022. For the 2022-23 academic year, Casey will join the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin as a predoctoral fellow.
Casey's research focuses on international security issues including alliance politics, emerging military technology and strategy, and the interaction of domestic and international security institutions.
In 2021-22, he completed a U.S. Institute of Peace–U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Peace and Security Scholar dissertation fellowship. Prior to coming to Penn, Casey served as a Nunn-Lugar Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, he contributed to the Department’s counter-ISIL team as the country director for Jordan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) from 2015 to 2017, and he supported WMD nonproliferation efforts in the Asia-Pacific region by advising on Cooperative Threat Reduction program oversight matters from 2013 to 2015. Casey has also conducted research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His work has appeared in War on the Rocks, the Washington Post “Monkey Cage” blog, The National Interest, and Orbis. He was a 2021 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C.
Casey holds an M.A. with distinction in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude in Russian from Middlebury College.
Casey's research focuses on international security issues including alliance politics, emerging military technology and strategy, and the interaction of domestic and international security institutions.
In 2021-22, he completed a U.S. Institute of Peace–U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Peace and Security Scholar dissertation fellowship. Prior to coming to Penn, Casey served as a Nunn-Lugar Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, he contributed to the Department’s counter-ISIL team as the country director for Jordan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) from 2015 to 2017, and he supported WMD nonproliferation efforts in the Asia-Pacific region by advising on Cooperative Threat Reduction program oversight matters from 2013 to 2015. Casey has also conducted research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His work has appeared in War on the Rocks, the Washington Post “Monkey Cage” blog, The National Interest, and Orbis. He was a 2021 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C.
Casey holds an M.A. with distinction in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude in Russian from Middlebury College.
Hello! Born and raised in Arizona, I have lived and worked in Middlebury, Vermont; Irkutsk, Russia; Monterey, California; Vienna, Austria; Richland, Washington; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Washington, D.C.
I am a cook, a yogi, a hiker, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
I am a cook, a yogi, a hiker, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
