Stephen Dalzell

Steve Dalzell joined RAND in January 2016 as a senior defense policy researcher. His current research focuses on U.S. security assistance in Africa and U.S. Army personnel management and readiness, particularly as they relate to the Reserve Components.  Dalzell's other interests include urban security and civil-military operations, and he is part of ongoing RAND support to Defense Institution Building efforts in other countries. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2006, where his dissertation applied the Advocacy Coalition Framework for public policy analysis to the development of housing policy in Mubarak's Egypt.

A retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Dalzell served two tours on the Joint Staff, two years as the Army Reserve's Director of Strategy and Integration, and overseas assignments in Italy, Djibouti, Germany, Honduras, and Korea. He was an Army Fellow at RAND in 2002, and a Senior Service College Fellow at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, in 2005-06. He was a 2006 graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

Dalzell is also an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University's School of International Service, where he teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy, African security, and veterans issues. He also serves on the DC Mayor's Advisory Board on Veterans Affairs.