Our Visiting Scholars

I am a PhD political science student at George Washington University. I study civil wars in Southeast Asia, focusing specifically on the relationship between nationalist identities and armed conflict in the southern Philippines. I hold an MSc. in Strategic Studies from RSIS, NTU Singapore, and a BA from the University of Sydney.

Garrett Hinck is a PhD candidate in Political Science with a focus in International Relations at Columbia University and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. He studies the effects of technology on secrecy, signaling, and arms control, bridging Cold War nuclear competition to contemporary debates about emerging technologies and the future of strategic stability.

His dissertation, “Signaling Secrets: Strategic Intelligence, Technology, and the Sources and Methods Dilemma,” explores the conditions under which intelligence collection technologies can enable leaders to disclose covertly acquired knowledge about rivals’ capabilities, examining Cold War technical espionage and emerging technologies such as AI-enhanced ISR and space-based situational awareness.

He was an AIxNuclear Fellow at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab and Council on Strategic Risks from 2025 to 2026, and a Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame from 2024 to 2025. Previously, he worked at the RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work has been published in War on the Rocks, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Lawfare, the Journal of National Security Law and Policy, and the Washington Post, and by the RAND Corporation, the Council on Strategic Risks, and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. He holds a B.S. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Eunwoo is a PhD student in Political Science at George Washington University. Her research focuses on military capabilities, military innovation, technology, state–tech relations, and coercive diplomacy. She earned her BA and MA in Political Science and International Relations from Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Before joining the PhD program, she worked as a Korea Foundation Research Fellow and Program Coordinator at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).

Christopher Ray is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ISCS, focusing on international security and political psychology. His book project, Enemy Unknown, examines how states respond to highly unprecedented emergent threats, particularly the ways that publics and policymakers manage uncertainty and anxiety. His other research examines public attitudes about threats like terrorism and great power conflict, the psychology behind climate change policy, and the strategic implications of mass trauma.

Christopher holds a PhD in Political Science from The Ohio State University, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he is engaged in a research project examining how top foreign policy graduate programs (including the Elliott School) train future policymakers to make decisions under uncertainty and threat.