Rosemary Kelanic

Rosemary Kelanic is the director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, where her research focuses on energy security, great power politics, and U.S. grand strategy in the Mideast. The author of two books, Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2020) and Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S. Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil, edited with Charles L. Glaser (Georgetown University Press, 2016), Dr. Kelanic has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Foreign Policy, TIME, Defense One, Security Studies, and other outlets. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in political science from Bryn Mawr College. She spent 10 years teaching at the University of Notre Dame and Williams College before entering the policy world.