Rebecca Fradkin

Dr. Rebecca
Fradkin

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About

Dr. Rebecca Fradkin is an expert on authoritarian regimes, influence operations, religion and politics, and Russia and Eurasia.

Rebecca received her PhD at the University of Oxford in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her doctoral thesis, Authoritarian Regimes and the Co-optation of Islam: Kazakhstan and Russia, examined how and why national and sub-national authoritarian regimes with Muslim majorities co-opt Islam and how ordinary citizens perceive these efforts.

Rebecca also previously earned her master’s from Oxford in Comparative Politics. She holds three Bachelor of Arts degrees in: Political Science (Diplomacy and Global Politics); Comparative Religion; and Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies from Miami University of Ohio. While at Miami, Rebecca was a Junior Fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, one of the foremost centers for research on contemporary Russia.

info[at]rebeccafradkin[dot]com

 

Experience

Research & Analysis, U.S. Department of State

2022- Present

Vice President, Director of Countering Disinformation Strategy, Edelman Data x Intelligence (DXI)

2022

Team Lead, Accenture Federal Services

2021- 2022

Senior Principal Research Scientist, Northrop Grumman

2020- 2021

Post-Graduate Researcher, University of Oxford

2014- 2019

Analyzed why and how authoritarian regimes co-opt religion; deconstructed how authoritarian regimes co-opt Islam in Muslim majority states and regions; assessed how citizens perceive these policies.

Fieldwork conducted in Russia and Kazakhstan

Departmental Instructor, University of Oxford

2016

Taught course on Minorities in Post-Communist Societies. Designed course curriculum and evaluation.

President, Oxford Women in Politics

2015 - 2016

OxWiP is the premier society at Oxford dedicated to advancing the role of women in public and professional life.

Initiated and executed successful high profile events with Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter (CEO and President of the New America Foundation, former Director of Policy Planning at US Department of State), Ambassador Melanne Verveer (former Chief of Staff for Hillary Clinton and Executive Director of Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security), and Gloria Steinem.

Intern, U.S. Department of State

2012

InterestS

Public Service
Data Analysis
Coffee

Education

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

DPhil (PhD) Politics
2019

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

MPhil (MA) Comparative Government (Top 3%)
2014

MIAMI UNIVERSITY OF OHIO

Triple Major: Political Science; Comparative Religion; and Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.
University Honors with Distinction

Awards

Centre for East European and International Studies Fellowship
Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Trajectories of Change Fellowship
ZEIT Stiftung Eselin und Gerd Bucerius

Fay and Geoffrey Elliott Bursary Fund and Archie Brown Scholarship
St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford

Cyril Foster and Dr. Jal Pavry Memorial Grant
DPIR, University of Oxford

Centre for East European Studies Language-Based Area Studies Doctoral Grant
Centre for East European Studies

Constant H. Jacquet Research Award
Religious Research Association

Havighurst Junior Fellow: Russia and Ukraine
Miami University of Ohio


Affiliations

The Leadership Council for Women in National Security

Contact

Email: info[at]rebeccafradkin[dot]com
Twitter: @RebeccaFradkin