Eleanor Freund
Biography
Eleanor Freund is a Ph.D. candidate in security studies and international relations, with a substantive interest in Chinese statecraft and security policy. Her dissertation project seeks to explain within- and across-case variation in China’s security partnerships with other states from 1949 to 2019. She holds an M.A. in global affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar, and a B.A. in political science with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining MIT, Eleanor was a research assistant and associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in China Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Biography
Eleanor Freund is a Ph.D. candidate in security studies and international relations, with a substantive interest in Chinese statecraft and security policy. Her dissertation project seeks to explain within- and across-case variation in China’s security partnerships with other states from 1949 to 2019. She holds an M.A. in global affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar, and a B.A. in political science with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining MIT, Eleanor was a research assistant and associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in China Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.