Molly Dunigan

Biography

Martha “Molly” Clark Dunigan is an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research interests focus on field coordination issues between private security forces and professional militaries, but also include civil–military relations, irregular warfare, security force assistance, maritime security, and arms control. From 2002 to 2003, Dunigan was a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow in the nuclear security program at Physicians for Social Responsibility. In 2004–05, she received a Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship to support Russian language study, and she was a 2006 recipient of a Peace Scholar Fellowship from the Cornell University Peace Studies Program. Dunigan's dissertation work, which examined the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness and the democratic advantage, was supported by a U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar dissertation fellowship. She is coauthor of the RAND report Hired Guns: Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom (Cotton et al., 2010) and author of Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2011). Dunigan received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she specialized in international relations and military studies.